Re: weird feature

[Edward Lam <edward at sidefx dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:10:19PM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:
> > Dave Korn wrote:
> > > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > >
> > > >   2. Use 'cygpath' to convert from DOS to Cygwin path forms and back as
> > > >      needed.  This can get tricky/cumbersome in some cases.
> > >   It can be a lot easier if you have a Makefile-based build system, where you
> > > can do the conversion on things that you know need converting like $(SRC) and
> > > $(OBJS) and $(INCLUDEPATH) but not things like $(CFLAGS), rather than if you
> > > try and write shell scripts to wrap the compiler and parse the options.  That
> > > can also be a good approach, but more work to get it completely right.
> > In my experience, adding cygcheck does slow down a large build system 
> > *significantly* when adding cygpath's though.
                               ^^^^^^^
> I can't quite grok that sentence.  Why would you add cygcheck to a build system?

Sorry, I meany cygpath.

-Edward

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