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Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81


On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:16:31PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 17 August 2006 15:13, 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"?).
>
>
>  And I was going to point out that it could simply be a no-op on any other
>platform and, as you say, a dll call on cygwin that hides make from being
>exposed to any 'black magic'.

I don't know.  I think I agree with Eli here.

The thought of adding a cygwin-specific function to make and then making sure
that it exists as a noop in any other version of make seems a little pushy to
me.

cgf

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