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Re: 3.81 and windows paths
> I can imagine that the immediate response to this complaint will be "fix
> your Makefiles to work with Cygwin if it's such an important component." As
> others have mentioned, this is no simple task in very large Makefile systems
> that support a wide variety of compilation toolchains. Cygwin make has
> supported Win32 paths for a long time, so much that I would say that people
> have come to rely on it. I am not saying that the changes are impossible;
> just that it is a larger inconvenience than some may realize.
I second this thought. I'm stuck on 3.80 until I have the time to figure
out how to port to 3.81. I may simply wait for 3.82 and hope the feature
removed comes back.
Bob Rossi
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