[PATCH] make, use mixed paths on cygwin, remove ugly paths conversion

[Michael Stahl]

On 09/05/12 10:02, d.ostrovsky at idaia.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> +1 for this.
> This simplify enormously the whole build.

+1 from me as well: i cannot really believe how many man-hours were
spent so far on trying to get this Cygwin path conversion nonsense to
actually work, and apparently it still doesn't, so getting rid of it
sounds like the way to go.

> The only question is, can we require, that all Windows build machines  
> have make 3.82 installed?

that is a good question :)
certainly the tinderboxes must be updated before this goes in.

> Ciao
> David
> 
> Zitat von Noel Grandin <noel at peralex.com>:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> Any chance we can get this in so I can get my tinderbox running on a  
>> RAM-Drive?
>> I can confirm it works on my tinderbox at least.
>>
>> Regards, Noel Grandin.
>>
>> On 2012-05-06 20:57, Matú? Kukan wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> These patches allow us to get rid of path conversions in makefiles by
>>> using cygpath -m format.
>>> But this only works with make 3.82, so configure is also changed.
>>> (Only for cygwin)
>>> There are only few exceptions where we need cygpath -u format.
>>>
>>> I am not sure if we want this now or later. (after libreoffice-3-6
>>> branch is created ?)
>>> Posting here, so you know about this and can push if that's good.
>>>
>>> It should work without problems ;-)
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Matú?
>>>
>>>
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