Re: Schedule for GNU make 3.81

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

  >> Hm.  Maybe the thing to do is for make itself to translate the
  >> pathnames to always have "/" instead of "\"?

  ez> That would be my suggestion as well.  The DJGPP port does that already
  ez> (in its library code, so don't look for that in Make's sources).

The trick is knowing where/when to do this.  Some places spring to mind:

  * Translate argv[0]

  * Translate the results of the getpwd() call that sets CURDIR,
    etc. and also provides the string for "entering directory..." output.

  * Translate the results of $(wildcard ...) (?)

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