Re: mingw make problem

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting "William A. Hoffman" <address@hidden>:

> But I want it to use sh.exe.   The makefiles are mostly POSIX,
> the only non-POSIX thing in them is the driver letter stuff.
> C:/foo/bar.C.   So cmd.exe does not like paths like that.   Also,

Actually the newer versions of cmd.exe doesn't complain with the 
forward slash.  An interesting effect is to execute cmd within the MSYS 
console.

> cmd.exe has problems with long command lines.   MSYS make would
> be a good choice, but it has the bad habit of changing command line
> options of dos programs into full paths to the msys mount point.

Only for the "native" binary.  It isn't a "bad habit" it is a necessary one.

Earnie Boyd

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