On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:56:20AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: >%% Christopher Faylor writes: >cf> If you want to use a Makefile which works in a Cygwin environment, >cf> however, then obviously you need to build it with a Cygwin gcc. > >You'll have to forgive my virtually complete ignorance of all things >Windows, even Cygwin, but if you have a minute... why? > >I mean, if there is no special Cygwin code in make any longer, then >can't people use a native Windows build of make and have it invoke tools >in the Cygwin environment? > >Or is there something special going on that means this won't work?
I think this has been answered later in the thread, but the short answer is - the MinGW make won't recognize the cygwin mount table or symlinks, so you can't use cygwin paths in a MinGW makefile without resorting to something like "cygpath". >Regardless, I still wonder whether my idea of building make for a POSIX >environment with Cygwin, but setting HAVE_DOS_PATHS explicitly, would >work. I briefly thought that this might be a possibility but I've since remembered cases where people complained about their linux makefiles not working correctly due to the colon handling in 3.80. This may have been a side effect of the ancient patches that I had been carrying forward but I have a feeling that there are cases where a makefile which runs on linux could not be properly parsed under cygwin. I mentioned this here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00896.html >cf> Again, I'm sorry for any confusion this may have caused. > >Absolutely no problem Christopher; I hope I didn't sound peeved because >I'm not. I'm happy to see this change, and I'm happy that I understand >the source of the confusion some Cygwin users have been having lately. >It's all good! No, I didn't detect any trace of "peevedness" at all. I just hate when decisions that I make have unintended consequences for other free software volunteers. cgf -- 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/
