> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:26:12 -0400 > From: Alex Khripin <[email protected]> > > Short summary: there's a bug (I blame Cygwin, but want to fix make) in > running commands that start with a drive letter when using Windows make and > Cygwin sh
Why are you using a native build of Make with Cygwin tools? Doing that is asking for trouble due to subtle incompatibilities like this one. The Cygwin build of Make is a much better candidate for this kind of job, and it does support DOS/Windows file names with drive letters. Can you use that instead? If not, why not? > When building the command line for cygwin (to be passed tinto > CreateProcess), look for arguments that start with a drive letter, and > escape them using a different method. This is a no-starter. Make has no knowledge about the semantics of the arguments of the commands it invokes, so it can never be sure that "d:/" is a drive letter of a file name. It could be something entirely different, like a Sed editing command, or part of a Grep pattern, or even a quoted file name that should be passed verbatim to the program to be used by it. Adding something like that to Make will introduce subtle bugs that would keep this list busy for the next 10 years. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
