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RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'respect mahhh nutwork securitahh'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:17:09 +0100
- Subject: RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 17 August 2006 17:12, mwoehlke wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
>>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in
>>>>>>> make and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers.
>>>>>> FWIW, I don't think such a function is a good idea, and if it is
>>>>>> proposed on the Make mailing list, I will probably object to it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The reason is that adding such a function goes against portability of
>>>>>> Makefiles across different ports of Make,
>>>>> ...which you would already have with cl commands and DOS paths...
>>>> Actually, sorry, I've misread the above. Doesn't GNU make already have a
>>>> plethora of functions not present in other makes? What's wrong with one
>>>> more? If "cygpath" is too system-specific a name, let's pick one that
>>>> isn't ("pathconv"?).
>>>
>>> Hey! Get off my computer! :-)
>>>
>>> ("pathconv" is exactly the name I gave to my tool that hides the
>>> differences between Cygwin's path conversion and Interix's path
>>> conversion.)
>>
>> Eh, get a better firewall. :-)
>
> I'll talk to my IT department. ;p
Relax, we already did it.
In your name. From your computer.
Then we went into theirs and sent you a reply, but it's awfully rude. You
don't want to read it. So we deleted the mail spool.
However, we have installed a firewall on your PC for you. Just one thing,
though, I think we put it in the wrong way round. I think we just protected
the rest of the internet from you. So you may not see this reply.
cheers,
DaveK
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