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RE: Probably stupid make question
And (not to pick a fight) you've missed the point: I don't have full control over this stuff. I have to use CMake because that's what the project uses, and it generates the commands. If I could generate the Makefile manually, I wouldn't have this problem. If I could convince CMake to use /cygdrive/c/docume~1/etc., I wouldn't have this problem. If I could convince CMake to put quotes around the path, I wouldn't have this problem. I can't, so I do.
But you've (seemingly inadvertently?) answered the question, so I can go off and hack something that works. Thanks!
...phsiii
P.S. And no, I'm not going to get into a top-posting vs. inline discussion -- that boat has sailed. I did remove your email address below, however, including the raw copy in your sig...
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Blake
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: Probably stupid make question
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin.com
^^^^
Oops - raw email address. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
Oops - top-posting. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
> This is all an argument for using Cygwin the way it was supposed to be
> used - there are no .bat files on UNIX. Use shell scripts instead.
>
According to Phil Smith on 8/30/2008 2:35 PM:
> Will shell scripts get
>
> -Dsomething=c:/Documents and Settings/whatever
>
> as one argument, or three?
You missed the point. c:/ anything is NOT posix-y. Rather, you should be
worried whether:
'-Dsomething=/cygdrive/c/documents and settings/whatever'
is one or three arguments (one if it is quoted correctly, three if it is
not). You're better off not even trying to use drive letters with a colon
when emulating posix.
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