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

[Benoit Sigoure]

Quoting Earnie Boyd <address@hidden>:

> 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?

I'm not sure to understand your question... If you're wondering where does all
this come from, check out this thread from ML-Libtool:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2006-11/msg00018.html

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