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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 10 09:23:51 -0800 
2005 -------
>> Is setting the MAKESTARTUP or DMAKEROOT environment not enough to make
>> the users happy? ;)
>
> No, it isn't.  On Unix it's OK because dmake looks for startup files in a
> sensible place, specified at compile time.  You only need to set DMAKEROOT if
> you want to change the default.  But on Win32, dmake currently looks for
> "\startup.mk", which is absurd.
I would call it a bug ;) One could set DMAKEROOT to something that is defined
at compile time too. 

> Therefore, users *have* to set DMAKEROOT, which
> isn't very friendly when (a) the startup files are almost certainly in the
> startup/ sub-directory of where the executable is, and (b) dmake.exe is
> perfectly capable of looking there.
IMHO capability is not the problem here, but that Windows is lacking something
like a default directory (that is everywhere the same), where programm packages
are installed in, is propably good reason.

( Another reason is that I have a patch ready to accomplish this ;) )

The following patch a macro ABSMAKECMD which contains the full pathname to
the current dmake programm for native Windows dmake (MSVC and MinGW) and ""
for all other compilers and sets
  "DMAKEROOT *= $(ABSMAKECMD:d)startup".
I verified that it builds/works MinGW but the patch should be OK for MSVC6 too.

Can you check that? I'll test later with VS .NET2003.

But we definitely have to update/change the documentation to mention
this special Windows treatment.

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