[Axiom-developer] Re: building wh-sandbox on Windows

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

> > Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> > > Having read this thread many times, it appears to me that the
> > > whole thread is confused.
> > > 
> > > First, I think people should state clearly and unambigously what
> > > is the problem they are trying to solve.
> > > 
> > > Second, people should state very clearly what is the problem they 
> > > are trying to avoid with relative paths.
> > > 
> > 
> > If you missed it we are trying to solve the following exercise:
> > 
> > Given make variables $< and $@ write a make rule which compiles
> > Lisp file from $< and puts the results in address@hidden
> > 
> > You can easily check that
> > 
> > echo '(compile-file "$<" :output-file "$@") (quit)' | ${DEPSYS}
> > 
> > does not work with relative paths (it works fine with absolute
> > paths).
> >
> 
> In case you did not notice: I wrote earlier that we want to solve
> inderlying problem, but in the Makefile we can arrange "$<" to
> be in current directory, which solves the immediate problem.

And many of us have been using that and building with relative paths.

-- Gaby