Need Reviewers - OpenJDK README-builds.html

[Martin Buchholz]

The maintainer of GNU make makes a commitment here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.make.windows/2937

to fix the problem in 3.82

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On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 18:08 -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> I assume cygwin will not be fixing this, in 3.82 or ever, is that
> the conclusion I am seeing?

No; I'm pretty sure it's already been fixed in CVS actually.

I just think that, in general, it's not guaranteed by make (or any other
cygwin tool) that you'll be able to use full DOS-style pathnames.
However, at least for make, unless there's some serious incompatibility
that makes it very difficult (or unless whomever maintains the Cygwin
port declines to make the change, which is not the case here) we'll make
an effort to be compatible.
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Martin

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Dan Fabulich <dan at fabulich.com> wrote:
> IMO, this document should not make any predictions about make 3.82, which is
> not yet released.
>
> Last time I researched the "C:/" problem, the developers had said that "C:/"
> paths were defective and that they deliberately pulled support for them
> because they were too much hassle to support in cygwin.  They recommended
> using MSYS make instead.
>
> Here's where they explain their position:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00671.html
>>
>> > Was this a deliberate break with backwards compatibility?
>> Yes. See <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-07/msg00008.html>. If
>> you are using a POSIX-like "OS" (i.e. Cygwin), you should be using POSIX
>> paths. That's not an inconvenience, that's called writing a bad makefile. If
>> you aren't using Cygwin for the POSIX environment, you should be using
>> MinGW.
>
> [aka MSYS make]
>
> Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>
>>
>> Attached is a diff and an updated OpenJDK README-builds.html file.
>>
>> If anyone has the time to review the changes I would appreciate it.
>>
>> The bugs fixed are:
>>
>> 6704966: OpenJDK README needs additional info on  how to build freetype
>> 6704968: OpenJDK Build README is missing ant requirement
>> 6704973: OpenJDK Build readme needs cygwin package list improvements
>> 6462815: cygwin's gnumake 3.81-1 does not support MS-DOS path names
>>
>> And the environment variable list is sorted.
>>
>> -kto
>>
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