Re: VPATH of the form C:/foo

[Benoit Sigoure]

On Dec 2, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:52:41AM +0100, Benoit Sigoure wrote:
> > On Dec 2, 2007, at 3:37 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > This does raise the question of why you'd be using a cygwin  
> > > version of
> > > make if you need to use colon paths.
> >
> > Good question.  The VPATH variable is set by a script that calls  
> > `make'.
> > This variable is also used to invoke native Windows tools, so it's  
> > more
> > convenient to use the C:/Foo/Bar notation, which has the advantage of
> > working with both native applications and Cygwin ones (while being  
> > nice
> > with the shell by avoiding backslashes).
>
> Why not convert the VPATH to UNIX format with cygpath ?


That's the workaround we use ATM, but I still consider this as a bug  
that the Windows port of make doesn't deal nicely with Windows paths  
for this particular feature.  I would prefer to avoid this sort of  
hack in my scripts:

case `uname -s` in
  CYGWIN*) # fix VPATH for b0rken port of make
   save_IFS=$IFS
   IFS=';'
   for p in $vpath; do
     IFS=$save_IFS
     vpath_tmp="$vpath_tmp:"`cygpath "$p"`
   done
   vpath=$vpath_tmp;;
esac

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Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory