change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

[mwoehlke]

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"?).
> 	Igor

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.)

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