Re: VPATH of the form C:/foo

[Benoit Sigoure]

On Dec 15, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Cc: address@hidden
> > From: Benoit Sigoure <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:36:45 +0100
> >
> > > 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 ;)
>
> Sorry for the long delay.  Please try the patch below:
>
> 2007-12-15  Eli Zaretskii  <address@hidden>
>
>         * vpath.c (construct_vpath_list) [HAVE_DOS_PATHS]: Support VPATH
>         values that use `:' in drive letters, when PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR is
>         also `:'.


Works for me, thank you very much!

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Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
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