Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Jon Grant
Hi! On 27/07/06 20:50, Bob Rossi wrote: Hi, Is it true that 3.81 does not work with windows paths? If so, what is the solution now? I need to use the unix path interally to make, and use the windows path only when compiling with cl? Could you be a little more specific with what you mean by

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% I wrote: pds> I believe that this support is limited to handling drive letters without pds> choking on the ":", actually: IIRC the native support still requires pds> forward slashes (/) rather than backslashes (\). I could be wrong pds> though. I'm not sure how Cygwin's pathname manag

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bd> To summarize, the Cygwin version of make prior to 3.81 contained bd> local patches to support both posix and Windows paths. The Cygwin bd> maintainer got tired of continuously maintaining these local bd> patches and so when packaging 3.81 t

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Bob Rossi
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:21:07PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Bob Rossi wrote: > > > Is it true that 3.81 does not work with windows paths? > > If so, what is the solution now? I need to use the unix path > > interally to make, and use the windows path only when compiling > > with cl? > > Plea

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Bob Rossi wrote: > Is it true that 3.81 does not work with windows paths? > If so, what is the solution now? I need to use the unix path > interally to make, and use the windows path only when compiling > with cl? Please refer to the lengthy discussion on the Cygwin list. To summarize, the Cygwi

3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Bob Rossi
Hi, Is it true that 3.81 does not work with windows paths? If so, what is the solution now? I need to use the unix path interally to make, and use the windows path only when compiling with cl? Thanks, Bob Rossi ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.