Re: Bug in the expansion of $(MAKE) in GNU make 3.81

[Benoit Sigoure]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> > Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:05:48 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:42:49 +0100
> > > From: Benoit Sigoure <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > However if the absolute path is Windows-style, something very 
> > weird happens:
> > >
> > > $ C:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/make
> > > echo /tmp/mk/3/C:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/make
> > > /tmp/mk/3/C:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/make
> > > /tmp/mk/3/C:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/make foo
> > > make: /tmp/mk/3/C:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/make: Command not found
> > > make: *** [all] Error 127
> > >
> > > where "/tmp/mk/3" is the current working directory.
> >
> > Thank you for your report.  I will try in a few days to find where
> > this problem happens.
>
> I just looked at the code.  The $(MAKE) variable is set in main.c
> around line 1300.  I don't see any reference to HAVE_DOS_PATHS there,
> though, so I don't see how the patch applied to the stock Cygwin
> sources could cause this trouble.  Could you please try this in the
> unpatched Cygwin 3.81 binary, and see if it has the same problem?  If
> the unpatched binary has the same problem, I think I know what needs
> to be done to fix this, but I'd like first to be sure that I'm not
> missing anything important.

I have the same problem with stock cygwin GNU make 3.81:

$ /usr/bin/make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i686-pc-cygwin
address@hidden /tmp/mk/3 $ C:/cygwin/bin/make
echo /tmp/mk/3/C:/cygwin/bin/make
/tmp/mk/3/C:/cygwin/bin/make
/tmp/mk/3/C:/cygwin/bin/make foo
make: /tmp/mk/3/C:/cygwin/bin/make: Command not found
make: *** [all] Error 127

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