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Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:46:07 -0400
- Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:40:12PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>Just to jump over to the other side here for a second... I assume you
>don't intend to ever make it /impossible/ to run DOS tools on Cygwin?
>That IMO *would* be unacceptable and unrealistic. But, of course,
>that's what interface tools - like cygpath - are for. IOW, the ability
>to offer a "pure POSIX" environment is good, as long as it does not
>preclude any communication whatsoever (no matter how clunky) with
>Windows.
No, we will always have some way of running and communicating with MS-DOS
filenames.
One thing I just added to cygwin recently is a warning which shows up
the first time you use a MS-DOS path, though. I am expecting that to be
very popular!
>I think I've made my position on the 'make' decision known; I have
>absolutely no problems with it, and I support it. Just as long as I can
>still pipe between DOS and Cygwin applications(*), share file systems,
>and have something like 'cygpath', Cygwin can (and should) be as
>POSIX-like as it wants. :-)
Pipes between MS-DOS programs and Cygwin programs is actually one of
the things that is a little tricky but it is not slated to go away.
cgf