Re: MAKECMDGOALS and spaces

[Marco Atzeri]

On 20.02.2021 08:12, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:05:36 +1100

> But IME the best solution for this is not to put anything under
> "Program Files" (or more generally anywhere on the C: drive): those
> directories are watched by several OS mechanisms designed to prevent
> corruption, and usually have special access control rights.  Programs
> installed by the user are better off if they steer away of those
> places.  My suggestion -- and what I personally use for many years --
> is to create a Posix-like tree in D:\usr, and install all programs
> like Make there, adding D:\usr\bin to your PATH.  This allows to solve
> easily the problem discussed here and many others as well.
>
> HTH

similar solution is implemented by Cygwin (Posix on Windows ambient)

Installation are

C:\cygwin64\ or D:\cygwin64\

with the usual structure starting there

$ ls -1 /

bin
cygdrive
dev
etc
home
lib
proc
sbin
srv
tmp
usr
var