William Sheehan wrote: > I can imagine that the immediate response to this complaint will be "fix > your Makefiles to work with Cygwin if it's such an important component." As > others have mentioned, this is no simple task in very large Makefile systems > that support a wide variety of compilation toolchains. Cygwin make has > supported Win32 paths for a long time, so much that I would say that people > have come to rely on it. I am not saying that the changes are impossible; > just that it is a larger inconvenience than some may realize.
In that case, spend your time working with the Make developers to get a patch accepted upstream that enables Windows path handling in Cygwin builds, so that there is not a large and cumbersome out-of-tree patch that has to be ported to each new make release. Remember this is a volunteer effort, and SHTDI. Or you can stick with make 3.80. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
