Re: [PATCH] make, use mixed paths on cygwin, remove ugly paths conversion

2012/5/9 Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>:
> On 09/05/12 10:02, d.ostrovsky@idaia.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > +1 for this.
> > This simplify enormously the whole build.
>
> +1 from me as well: i cannot really believe how many man-hours were
> spent so far on trying to get this Cygwin path conversion nonsense to
> actually work, and apparently it still doesn't, so getting rid of it
> sounds like the way to go.
>
> > The only question is, can we require, that all Windows build machines
> > have make 3.82 installed?
>
> that is a good question :)
> certainly the tinderboxes must be updated before this goes in.

AFAIK everybody uses 3.82 on Windows (special edition from
contrib/dev-tools/tree/make-3.82-gbuild). With stock 3.81 the build
breaks (sometimes I do make instead of /opt/lo/bin/make by mistake and
I always fail!). 3.82 from Cygwin is also buggy, Fridrich had problems
with it, if I remember correctly. So don't worry about this
requirement.

Andras