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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin
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Christopher Faylor |
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin |
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Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:21:57 -0400 |
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 04:38:22PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Pavel Fedin <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:22:31 +0400
>>
>> > > 2. PATH_SEPARATOR on Cygwin is ':' and on pure DOS/Windows is ';'.
>> >
>> > This is true, but how is this relevant to the issue at hand?
>> > 'abspath' does not deal with PATH-style directory lists, it accepts a
>> > single file name as its argument. What am I missing here?
>>
>> To the issue - no, this really doesn't relate. But this is still involved
>> in the change, because path list is one more thing which depends on native
>> path style of underlying environment.
>
>Are you saying that if a Cygwin Make uses DOS style file names with
>drive letters, it also expects the PATH-style directory lists to use a
>semi-colon as a separator? I don't think I'd expect that. I think
>PATH-style lists should always use Unix-style file named in the Cygwin
>Make. DOS-style file names should only be supported in targets and
>commands.
FWIW, this used to be controlled by a command-line option which allowed
switching back and forth between DOS paths/';' and UNIX paths/':'.
We surely don't want to go back to that.
cgf
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin, (continued)
- RE: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin, Pavel Fedin, 2013/08/06
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/06
- RE: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin, Pavel Fedin, 2013/08/07
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/07
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin, Christopher Faylor, 2013/08/07
- RE: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin, Pavel Fedin, 2013/08/08
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin,
Christopher Faylor <=
Re: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin, Christopher Faylor, 2013/08/05
Re: [PATCH 2/2] Do not use DOS paths on Cygwin, Christopher Faylor, 2013/08/02