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Re: VPATH of the form C:/foo
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Brian Dessent |
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Re: VPATH of the form C:/foo |
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Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:44:03 -0800 |
Benoit Sigoure wrote:
> Everything works fine excepted that when I use a VPATH of the form C:/
> something, the files in the source tree are not found because make /
> seems/ to separate the VPATH with colons. I believed that, on
> Windows, the VPAH would be semi-colon separated, but maybe I was wrong.
>
> Is this a known bug? Or unsupported?
Cygwin is supposed to be POSIX-like, so colons are the correct
separator. It would be wrong to use semicolons. It seems you've
stumbed into a corner case of how to support both POSIX and Win32 path
semantics at the same time. Can't you just use a space instead?
Brian