Christopher Faylor wrote: > Actually, we have had people who have complained because make became > confused by certain uses of a ':' in the old version of make. I see now > that this is because of the attempt to interpret a valid make rule as > a MS-DOS path. > > So, I'm less inclined to want to recommend an upstream patch. I don't > think I want to break valid makefiles which work on linux.
Well surely such a patch would include sufficient logic to know that ^[a-z]:[/\\] incidates a DOS path and not to just blindly puke and cry on a path component that happens to have a : in it somewhere. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/