Hi... bug-make-bounces+roland.schwingel=onevision....@gnu.org wrote on 30.07.2013 17:43:10:
> > Currently make's configure suggests that it should use DOS-style paths on > > Cygwin. This is not true, and this assumption makes path-related mechanisms > > to work incorrectly. Currently Cygwin package supplies manual hint in > > config.cache in order to work around this. > > Sorry, I don't understand the problem you are trying to solve. Could > you please explain it in more detail? > > This feature was added in response to an explicit request of some > Cygwin users. I don't want to remove it without a very good reason. > After all, if you don't need DOS-style file names, you can simply > refrain from using them in your Makefiles, and then you will not see > any effect of this support. > > > I think we should also ask MinGW team about __MSYS__ definition. MSys is > > close to Cygwin, so perhaps this should also be removed. > > MSYS supports DOS-style file names, so removing that would seem wrong. > However, I don't speak for MSYS developers, so I'll defer to their > judgment. I want to throw in my $0.02 here, too. But this time in the other direction. Sorry Pavel. I clearly think the DOS paths mode should remain in even for cygwin. I know that there are objections in cygwins top level management against this. Cygwin wants to have DOS path mode out as - as far as I understand it. Therefore I am maintaining my private version of gnumake for many years now with enabled DOS path mode (and some little other things). Also I could not see any problems building packages on cygwin for cywin with my version of gnumake, but I have to confess that is not my regular use case. I believe I am using a DOS paths enabled gnumake on cygwin now for over 10 years. Having enabled DOS pathes in gnumake makes life with non cygwin tools (eg. javac and other things) in makefiles a lot easier. Again this is my personal opinion. For MSYS I believe it could not be ripped out. It is IMHO vital there and would break it. Roland
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