Re: [AD] Issues when building MSVC Allegro using Cygwin

[Andrei Ellman <ae-a-alleg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Schlyder wrote:
> Andrei Ellman:
>
> > I just tried running the makefile twice under both Cygwin, DJGPP without
> > UNIX_TOOLS and DJGPP with UNIX_TOOLS set to 1. In all cases when I run 
> > the makefile the first time, the two directories are successfully 
> > created, and when I run the makefile for a second time, I always get the 
> > message:
> > make.exe: Nothing to be done for `create-dirs'.
> > In Cygwin, I am using make 3.80, and in DJGPP, make 3.79.1
>
>
> Ok, I'm confused. Let me get this straight.
>
> Your results:
>
> Environment    Make version    UNIX_TOOLS    Result
> Cygwin         3.80            0             success
> DJGPP          3.79.1          0             success
> DJGPP          3.79.1          1             success
>
> Correct? DJGPP's mkdir works with slashes and Cygwin with single backslashes?

The Cygwin line should be
Cygwin         3.80            1             success
All other lines are correct. In Cygwin, it is impossible to access the 
DOS tools, so UNIX_TOOLS=1 must always be set in Cygwin.

I think that if DJGPP is installled, DJGPP's mkdir might be called in 
favour of DOS's mkdir (but I'm not sure on this), so that will explain 
why mkdir works with forward slashes in DJGPP


> My results:
>
> Environment    Make version    UNIX_TOOLS    Result
> MinGW          3.80            0             success
> MinGW          3.80            1             command syntax error
> MinGW/MSYS     3.79.1          0             file exists error [1]
> MinGW/MSYS     3.79.1          1             success
>
>
> This doesn't make sense to me. :(
>
> [1] Also, note that created dirs are "c:/progra~1foo" and
> "c:/progra~1foobar".

In all cases, "C:\Program Files\foo\bar\" was created.


AE.