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RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81


On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 17 August 2006 17:12, mwoehlke wrote:
>
> > Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
> >>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in
> >>>>>>> make and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers.
> >>>>>> FWIW, I don't think such a function is a good idea, and if it is
> >>>>>> proposed on the Make mailing list, I will probably object to it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The reason is that adding such a function goes against portability of
> >>>>>> Makefiles across different ports of Make,
> >>>>> ...which you would already have with cl commands and DOS paths...
> >>>> Actually, sorry, I've misread the above.  Doesn't GNU make already have a
> >>>> plethora of functions not present in other makes?  What's wrong with one
> >>>> more?  If "cygpath" is too system-specific a name, let's pick one that
> >>>> isn't ("pathconv"?).
> >>>
> >>> Hey! Get off my computer! :-)
> >>>
> >>> ("pathconv" is exactly the name I gave to my tool that hides the
> >>> differences between Cygwin's path conversion and Interix's path
> >>> conversion.)
> >>
> >> Eh, get a better firewall. :-)
> >
> > I'll talk to my IT department. ;p
>
>   Relax, we already did it.
>
>   In your name.  From your computer.
>
>   Then we went into theirs and sent you a reply, but it's awfully rude.
> You don't want to read it.  So we deleted the mail spool.
>
>   However, we have installed a firewall on your PC for you.  Just one
> thing, though, I think we put it in the wrong way round.  I think we
> just protected the rest of the internet from you.  So you may not see
> this reply.

Oh, and Cygwin may not work too well now, since we've installed
Symantec...
	Igor
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