Re: [bug #41246] Allow to switch shell batch mode at runtime instead of build time

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 06:54:36PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Why are you using backslashes in file names when your shell is a Unixy
> shell?  That makes little sense to me, and I don't see why Make on
> Windows should support such use.  Unixy shells are supposed to get
> Unixy file names with forward slashes, including in redirection.

I didn't write that makefile, and that makefile is just a pile of awful
things, not to say worse, and it does rely on the paths using
backslashes for many different reasons. I tried switching to forward
slashes, but many pieces broke as a result. The fact that I can get that
makefile to work with batch shell mode is kind of a deliverance: i don't
have to touch that pile of garbage.

Mike