Re: VPATH of the form C:/foo

[Benoit Sigoure]

On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Cc: address@hidden
> > From: Benoit Sigoure <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:12:52 +0100
> >
> > address@hidden ~ $ make -p VPATH=C:/cygwin | grep -A2 -i vpath
> > [...]
> > --
> > # VPATH Search Paths
> >
> > # No `vpath' search paths.
> >
> > # No general (`VPATH' variable) search path.
>
> Ah, I see the problem: the native Windows port (which is what I have)
> converts all `:' that are not part of drive letter spec to `;' (by
> calling convert_vpath_to_windows32), and then Make parses that using
> `;' as PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR, which makes "C:/foo:D:/bar" work.  But in
> the Cygwin build, convert_vpath_to_windows32 is not called and
> PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR is `:', so this does not work.
>
> I will try to post an experimental patch soon.  Thanks for pointing
> out this problem.


Thank you very much, I'm eager to see the patch ;)

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Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory