change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

[mwoehlke]

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

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