change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

[mwoehlke]

Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
> 
>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>> Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in make
>>> and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers.  That way, the Cygwin make
>>> will not have to invoke a separate process to convert the paths that it
>>> (as a program linked to cygwin1.dll) already knows how to do.
>> I'd like to point out that such a patch would be all of about five lines
>> of "code"... (And for the record, I've written both new make functions
>> AND my own version of cygpath, so I know what I'm talking about.)
> 
> Properly written, perhaps about 10.  But what's a constant factor between
> friends? ;-)

Ah, I was thinking about the version of cygpath I wrote, that only does 
absolute conversions, and thus is less code. :-) Also see below.

>> Except note you would almost certainly want $(cygpathu) and $(cygpathw).
> 
> Umm, actually I was thinking of $(cygpath) with 2 parameters -- the type
> of conversion, and the list of paths.

Oh, right. I think I was thinking about it taking a list of files, but 
that is of course what $(foreach) is for. Your way is more flexible but 
requires more coding (because then you have to think about how to handle 
the 'what type of conversion' argument). So it is 10 lines of code 
instead of 5... and you're still just *copying* the source of cygpath.

-- 
Matthew
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