Re: VPATH of the form C:/foo

[Benoit Sigoure]

On Nov 28, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: Benoit Sigoure <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:14:27 +0100
> >
> > 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?
>
> It will be supported in the next release of Make.  For now, try the
> patch from here:
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-w32/2006-08/msg00104.html
>
> Note that after patching, you will need to regenerate the configure
> script, then repeat the "./configure; make; make install" dance.

This patch is the first that I applied before building make.  And  
after applying the patches, configure is automatically regenerated  
thanks to the automatic dependencies installed by automake.  So yeah,  
even with this patch, it doesn't work.

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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