change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

[Gareth Pearce]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> code, perhaps with some Cygwin-specific changes).  Contrary to what
> some people said in this thread, I don't see any problems that could
> hamper the Cygwin build of Make if it supported drive letters, since
> Windows doesn't allow colons anywhere else in file names anyway.  Of
> course, the best way of making sure no problems exist is to test the
> patched version in the Cygwin environment.
>   
I think I read somewhere that you can now have colon's and other such 
characters in filenames in cygwin, you just have to mount the directory 
with a special flag and the filenames you see in windows are encoded.  
So thats a test case for consideration.

--Gareth

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