weird feature

[Edward Lam]

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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