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

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> > 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).

FWIW, you're barking at a long standing Cygwin issue.  The mix of POSIX 
and Win32 paths in the Makefile will cause issues.  Do you have a 
sample Makefile that gives this?


Earnie Boyd
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