Re: VPATH of the form C:/foo

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Philmart <address@hidden>:

> Christopher Faylor-27 wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:36:45PM +0100, Benoit Sigoure wrote:
> > ...
> > This does raise the question of why you'd be using a cygwin version of
> > make if you need to use colon paths.
> > ...
>
> When using eclipse with CDT plugin and the "Cygwin GCC toolchain" on a MS
> Windows workstation, the problem occurs.
> CDT does not understand POSIX pathes in the include directories list.
> "g++ -M" commands generates dependencies makefiles according to the include
> path given by CDT.
> Finally, make fails with "multiple target patterns" error.

Then you need to use 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw32-make-3.81-2.tar.gz 
instead.

> eclipse could understand cygwin like pathes, but I agree with Benoit to
> consider this as a bug of make Windows port. It should support as well as
> possible Windows path format.

It is not a bug, you've used the wrong build of make.

Earnie