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Re: automake -vs- huge projects
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>
- Cc: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at src dot lip6 dot fr>, Automake List <automake at gnu dot org>,Tom Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at redhat dot com>,Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu at faw dot uni-ulm dot de>
- Date: 02 Jan 2004 20:36:20 -0700
- Subject: Re: automake -vs- huge projects
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0312301851310.781-100000@scooby.simplesystems.org>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> writes:
>> $(CC) -c -o $@ `$(CYGPATH_W) $<`
Bob> An simple (but ugly) approach would be to define $(CYGPATH_W) to
Bob> 'echo' when not compiling under Cygwin.
We already have much worse hacks. But ideally we'd be reducing the
amount of weird code we generate, trying to streamline compilations as
much as possible (hence the fast-dep stuff).
Bob> It seems to me that perhaps 'CYGPATH_W' is misnamed or the use is
Bob> outdated.
It's entirely possible. This use probably dates to the original
Cygwin port of automake and most likely has been carried forward
without examination or modification since then.
Tom