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Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81


On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:15:50PM -0400, Harig, Mark wrote:
> 
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> $ make -f mk
>> make: *** No rule to make target `c\:/hoffman/foo/foo.c', 
>> needed by `foo'.  Stop
>> 
>> Hoffman@VOGON ~/foo
>> $ ../make381/usr/bin/make.exe -f mk
>> make: *** No rule to make target `c\:/hoffman/foo/foo.c', 
>> needed by `foo'.  Stop
>> 
>> 
>> So, I am guessing there is no way to write a makefile that will use
>> make 3.81 that will work with Microsoft's cl.  Is that 
>> correct?  Or am 
>> I missing something?  I can change cmake to put anything I 
>> want in the generated
>> makefiles, but it will have to be something that is valid for cl.
>
>Suggestion:
>
>1. $ mount -m
>   $ mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/"
>   $ mount -m
>
>2. Edit your 'mk' file to change "c\:/hoffman" to "/c/hoffman".  In
>   general, change the "drive:" strings to "/drive/" strings, after you have
>   changed your cygdrive prefix.

That isn't going to help with programs like cl which take MS-DOS command
line arguments, nor, is my oft-suggested but consistently ignored perl
script for converting a makefile from MS-DOS to cygwin paths.

cgf

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