Re: make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths)

2008-06-30 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:08:00 -0700 > From: "Kelly O'Hair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I assume cygwin will not be fixing this, in 3.82 or ever, is that > the conclusion I am seeing? DOS file name support for Cygwin is already in CVS and will be in the next release of GNU Make.

Re: make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths)

2008-06-30 Thread Kelly O'Hair
Thanks. And I understand the "no guarantee" issue, we ran into a problem with find.exe too a while back. I also understand their point of view on these paths being problematic, but unfortunately the OpenJDK build process uses such a mixed bag of tools (misc unix utils, java.exe, cl.exe, rc.exe,

Re: make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths)

2008-06-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 18:08 -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote: > I assume cygwin will not be fixing this, in 3.82 or ever, is that > the conclusion I am seeing? No; I'm pretty sure it's already been fixed in CVS actually. I just think that, in general, it's not guaranteed by make (or any other cygwin too

make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths)

2008-06-30 Thread Kelly O'Hair
Re: make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths) I've seen some long and somewhat unpleasant mail threads on this issue and don't cherish being blasted for bringing it up again, but... I assume cygwin will not be fixing this, in 3.82 or ever, is that the conclusion I am seeing? I