Dear Eli Zaretskii! On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:43:10 +0300 you wrote: > Sorry, I don't understand the problem you are trying to solve. Could > you please explain it in more detail?
The actual problem with this is that Make supports either DOS or POSIX style paths, but not simultaneously. I came to this when i developed my previous patch (spawn instead of fork). I needed to rebuild Make, so i typed configure then make. For verification i used 'make test'. All tests which use relative>absolute path conversion failed after this. It took me some time fo figure out what was wrong. Make failed to recognize paths starting from '/' as absolute and corrupted them. It expected absolute paths to have form of 'x:/'. Actually i asked on the Cygwin ML, and they told that they just force this option to off via config.cache. If someone really wants it, then maybe perhaps something like --enable-dos-paths should be introduced ? If the user really wants DOS paths under Cygwin, and completely understands what he is doing, then let him specify this on the command line. -- Kind regards, Pavel Fedin _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
