Re: Windows make invoking cygwin sh bug
Alex Khripin <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: > > Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:26:12 -0400 > > From: Alex Khripin <[email protected]> > > > > Short summary: there's a bug (I blame Cygwin, but want to fix make) in > > running commands that start with a drive letter when using Windows make > and > > Cygwin sh > > Why are you using a native build of Make with Cygwin tools? Doing > that is asking for trouble due to subtle incompatibilities like this > one. The Cygwin build of Make is a much better candidate for this > kind of job, and it does support DOS/Windows file names with drive > letters. Can you use that instead? If not, why not? > > I tried this today with a simple Makefile that I ran with Cygwin's make: DIR=c:/temp $(DIR)/myfile2 : $(DIR)/myfile cp $^ $@ $(DIR)/myfile : @echo foo > $@ This does not work: Makefile:3: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. Are you sure the cygwin make is meant to deal with Windows paths? _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32