On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:11:40AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: >On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 10:37 +0400, Pavel Fedin wrote: >>Looks like, if you want DOS paths, and running under Cygwin, an >>explicit conversion has to be performed on getcwd() result using >>cygwin_conv_path(). However i did not test this further because i >>follow official Cygwin way of doing things, and Cygwin deprecates usage >>of DOS style paths, obviously because they create lots of problems in >>UNIX utilities which are not modified to handle them. Cygwin even >>warns you when some API functions get DOS paths. > >Perhaps we need to split the HAVE_DOS_PATHS flag into two flags: >something like ACCEPT_DOS_PATHS which enables various pathname parsing >functions to understand DOS-style paths, and something like >RETURN_DOS_PATHS, which is used in functions that generate absolute >pathnames like abspath etc. to decide whether the generated pathname >should be DOS-like or UNIX-like. > >I'm not sure what cygwin_conv_path() does or whether it is needed or >useful in this situation.
Cygwin understands MS-DOS style paths just fine so I don't think there's any reason for make to do conversions. cgf _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
