Re: make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths)

[Bill Hoffman]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> If there is a mingw jobserver issue, it sounds like a bug.  Has it been
> filed?
I think this is a known limitation, that the job server is not 
implemented on certain platforms.   I googled a bit, and it seemed like 
it has something to do with having or not having named pipes. Perhaps 
some of the gnu make folks could elaborate on this issue.

> Despite Cygwin being good at what it does, that doesn't mean that it
> will lose its core focus of providing a UNIX-like environment on Windows
> and guarantee a seamless experience if you are using MS-DOS paths.  A
> utility may understand c:\ paths but there are no guarantees.  The
> current version of Cygwin make is an example of this.

Right now it is the only solution that I am aware of that does what I 
need, parallel make with support for recursive make invocations.  I am 
very happy that the support for this is in CVS head for gmake, and am 
looking forward to the day it is back in the main Cygwin releases.   I 
realize this is out of the scope a bit for cygwin, but it is a very 
useful feature.   I suppose the other option would be to implement a job 
server for native windows builds, but I really don't have time for that.

-Bill