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Re: Make and javac compliler problem in bash
Carl Thompson wrote:
>
> Woody Jin wrote:
>
> ...
>
> I like this idea, but I think this functionality would more properly go into
> the BASH patches for Cygwin than in the Cygwin DLL itself. Since BASH (like
> all Unix shells) processes metacharacters in command lines itself before
> sending them to the application, this would be an natural fit for that
> section of the code. The only real tricky part would be figuring out how to
> allow BASH to figure out whether an application is Cygwin or native Windows
> (or is that easy?).
>
To quote J.J.:
>I'm sure that if you submit patches to fully, robustly, and
>unambiguously implement this functionality, they'll be seriously
>considered for inclusion.
By the way, cygpath is your friend.
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Bash maintainer for Cygwin
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