Re: Environment variables in makefiles with DOS

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> > Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:27:34 -0400
> > From: Earnie Boyd <address@hidden>
> >
> > Is there a windows API call to convert the filename to 8.3?
>
> Yes, GetShortPathName.  See:
>
>    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364989.aspx
>
> > Perhaps a windows hack could store the filename in 8.3?
>
> But how would this solve the problem in the case in point?  The
> problem here is with the Makefile parser, which uses whitespace as
> separator.  This happens much earlier than Make even knows it is
> dealing with a file name.

I was thinking the parser could store the value of the 8.3 for the long 
name if the value contained spaces but forget it as we don't know it is 
a file name being stored.

> Btw, would using a function work here?  Something like this:
>
>  include $(SOURCE_ROOT)/$(file "Main Line")/default.mk
>
> where the hypothetical function $file just returns its argument.
> Would this work?

I think it might assuming the function $file returned the 8.3 version 
of the name.  The include function though already knows its argument is 
a file path.  For the include furnction writing the line as

 include "$(SOURCE_ROOT)/Main Line/default.mk"

should take care of the space issue or did I miss something.

Earnie