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Re: VPATH of the form C:/foo


From: Brian Dessent
Subject: Re: VPATH of the form C:/foo
Date: 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




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