Re: Bug in the expansion of $(MAKE) in GNU make 3.81

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:42:49 +0100
> From: Benoit Sigoure <address@hidden>
> 
> However if the absolute path is Windows-style, something very weird happens:
> 
> $ C:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/make
> echo /tmp/mk/3/C:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/make
> /tmp/mk/3/C:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/make
> /tmp/mk/3/C:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/make foo
> make: /tmp/mk/3/C:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/make: Command not found
> make: *** [all] Error 127
> 
> where "/tmp/mk/3" is the current working directory.

Thank you for your report.  I will try in a few days to find where
this problem happens.  If you could step through the relevant code
with a debugger and tell what you see, it will help (I don't have
Cygwin installed, so cannot do this myself).