Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "John W. Eaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jwe> On 28-Jul-2006, Paul D. Smith wrote: | This would be very tricky: right now all the code to do DOS vs. POSIX | pathnames is controlled through #ifdefs, so it's a compile-time thing. | Changing it to a runtime thin

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
ckslash issues. I really don't remember what HAVE_DOS_PATHS does with backslashes in target/prerequisite pathnames. YM, of course, MV :-) -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "John W. Eaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jwe> On 28-Jul-2006, Paul D. Smith wrote: | Regardless, I still wonder whether my idea of building make for a POSIX | environment with Cygwin, but setting HAVE_DOS_PATHS explicitly, would | work. jwe> If this

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
d I'm happy that I understand the source of the confusion some Cygwin users have been having lately. It's all good! Cheers! -- ------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at:

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
d sections of code that need to be fixed). But, it might be worth pursuing. -- ------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, bu

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
ng the Cygwin environment, vs. using a native MingW (for example) build of GNU make? I'm afraid I'm woefully ignorant about the details. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make

Re: csh and/or GNU make bug

2006-04-17 Thread Paul D. Smith
o. My HO, of course :-). -- ------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scien

RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-21 Thread Paul D. Smith
suspect it would be a _LOT_ of work, and would need to use a lot of special features of whatever LR tool you chose. Something like PCCTS might be better suited :). -- ------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
(or four) things I know about, so ... eh?" dk> I'd just like to point out that it isn't only $shell that is dk> affected: $error and $warning are also affected. I also notice dk> that it works fine if you escape the semicolon: Right. This is a parser bug, pure and

RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
d shows that it does work as documented: .PHONY: all showfoo all: showfoo $(MAKE) showfoo MAKEFLAGS='FOO=1' showfoo: ; @echo 'FOO=$(FOO)' $ make FOO= make[1]: Entering directory `/home/psmith' FOO=1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/psmith'

Re: Changing resolution of $^ in make

2002-10-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
or finding targets, only for finding source files (that is, files which are not built by make but which exist a priori). See my web site below for a longer description of how VPATH/vpath works. -- ------- Paul D. Smi

Re: bug in make-3.79.1

2002-09-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
Hi; this bug has been reported before and is fixed in the CVS version of GNU make; the fix will be in the next release. Thanks for the report! -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU mak