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Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:38:34 -0400
- Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:28:23PM -0700, Douglas Goodall wrote:
>>>
>>>What are you talking about. Either you like Unix or you don't. To the
>>>best of my knowledge, FreeBSD doesn't have drive letters either. Its
>>>not the Unix way. Your position astounds me ;-)
>>
>>I'm pretty sure that HP/UX understands drive letters, though.
>>
>>I have 30 years of experience in the computer industry so I am obviously
>>right about this.
>
>This is where the IDD comes in I guess, Just because HP/UX may do it
>doesn't make it worth emulating. Thats my opinion, not based on 40
>years of experience in the computer industry, but based on my
>experience since Unix Version 7.
I think linux probably has some kind of /proc file option setting to understand
drive letters. Probably cygwin should emulate that.
cgf