Re: basename function in 4.3 cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ronald Hoogenboom <RHoogenboom@irdeto.com>
> CC: "bug-make@gnu.org" <bug-make@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 13:57:49 +0000
> Accept-Language: en-US
> 
> I checked the native windows port of gnu-make I have (x86_64-pc-msys, version 
> 4.2.1) and it exhibits the same behavior as what I see on cygwin. Apparently 
> this is not cygwin specific.
> 
> Since you state that there were some changes done between 3.81 and 4.x with 
> regards to the backslash path separator, I guess that is what caused this 
> regression.

What is the regression? can you show an example that can be reproduced
and analyzed?

The native Windows port of GNU Make interprets backslashes as
directory separators, as expected.  If this is what you see, it isn't
a bug.