From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs pretest 24.0.90 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:48:13 +0200 Message-ID: <83ehyi466q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87litcvtu2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <565EF29AD574471187720A71C5ABD45D@us.oracle.com> <83k48awlp1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318431103 7412 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2011 14:51:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:51:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 12 16:51:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RE09e-00022I-T8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:51:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE09e-0007i3-CJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:51:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE09Y-0007hi-G5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:51:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE09X-00040N-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:51:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:53105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE09X-00040J-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LSY00400JQZYP00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:48:13 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.51.78]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LSY004JAJSCYR00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:48:12 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145017 Archived-At: > From: Dave Abrahams > Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:21:18 -0400 > > > It's a problem with the MSYS Make and MSYS Bash. They convert > > command-line arguments of the form /x/foo/bar to x:/foo/bar. This > > fails miserably when the original command-line argument is not a file > > name, e.g., when the Makefile invokes "cmd /c SOMETHING". See > > nt/INSTALL, which doesn't recommend MSYS for this very reason. > > Most options in Windows work if you use "-" instead of "/". If you use > "-" in your Makefile you can avoid triggering this issue. Not in this case: cmd.exe does not accept -c, only /c.