On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:10:19PM -0400, Edward Lam wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> >>> 2. Use 'cygpath' to convert from DOS to Cygwin path forms and back as >>> needed. This can get tricky/cumbersome in some cases. >> >> It can be a lot easier if you have a Makefile-based build system, where you >> can do the conversion on things that you know need converting like $(SRC) and >> $(OBJS) and $(INCLUDEPATH) but not things like $(CFLAGS), rather than if you >> try and write shell scripts to wrap the compiler and parse the options. That >> can also be a good approach, but more work to get it completely right. > >In my experience, adding cygcheck does slow down a large build system >*significantly* when adding cygpath's though.
I can't quite grok that sentence. Why would you add cygcheck to a build system? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
