At 04:56 PM 8/17/2006, Paul D. Smith wrote: >Hi all; > >Please don't dispair if I'm not as communicative as I usually am. For >those not aware, in the "real world" I've decided to leave my previous >position (of 13+ years!) and take on a new challenge. As a result, >there is some turbulence in my life at the moment and one consequence >of this is I've not gotten my email situation ironed out completely to >my satisfaction... this means I'm not reading email as consistently as >I'd like. > >I will sort it out!
Thanks, belive it or not this was not on my list of things to do for the past few days. >In the meantime, I do think that the idea you are discussing is a good >one, provided Chris and the other Cygwin folks agree. Please continue >to work with Eli (et.al.) to polish up the patch. I will be providing >input as I have it. I look forward to your input. >One thing: my original idea was to have a configure option that >enabled the DOS path capabilities. I note some here are advocating a >configure test which simply sets the HAVE_DOS_PATHS option if Cygwin >is detected, rather than leaving it up to the user. Is it the case >that people might want to build a Cygwin version of make _WITHOUT_ DOS >path support? Good question. So, you are thinking this would be a --have-dos-paths option to configure? My configure.in skills are a bit rusty since I am a cmake developer I don't use it that much. :) So, I would appreciate some help in that area. The issues remain: 1. make HAVE_DOS_PATHS work when WINDOWS32 is not defined. 2. come up with a way to set PATH_SEPARATOR 3. Do we want to support c:\path\foo in the cygwin path, or just c:/path/foo? If only one some more work needs to be done. 4. fix the configure script to have an option or just always set HAVE_DOS_PATHS on cygwin. -Bill _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
