On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:26:12 -0400
> > From: Alex Khripin <akhri...@alum.mit.edu>
> >
> > 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?
>
> I tried this today with a simple Makefile that I ran with Cygwin's make:
DIR=c:/temp
$(DIR)/myfile2 : $(DIR)/myfile
cp $^ $@
$(DIR)/myfile :
@echo foo > $@
This does not work:
Makefile:3: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.
Are you sure the cygwin make is meant to deal with Windows paths?
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