> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:32:19 -0400 > From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >What is best should be decided by the Cygwin community, so you may > >wish to discuss this on the Cygwin list. (If it matters, my advice > >would be to allow only the forward slashes for the Cygwin port, as it > >gives enough rope to get things done for minimal risk, and because > >backslashes are not 100% supported even in the native builds.) > > > >Whatever the decision, this is precisely the reason why the patch we > >eventually decide upon should be tested with as many Cygwin Makefile's > >as possible. > > I guess my concern is that there will be times where a '\' will not > be interpreted as a quoting character when it really should be. > > I can't think of any examples, though.
The only examples I can think of is passing \b and \n to programs like `echo' or `printf'. Even then, I'm not sure I can come up with a specific case where the current code would cause a failure. So, Chris, are you okay with leaving this behavior in the Cygwin build, or do you wish to opt for a safer /-only support for drive letters? We need to make a decision, and I'd rather have yours than decide on my own. (I didn't see any discussion of this on the Cygwin list, either.) _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
