On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:36:45PM +0100, Benoit Sigoure wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >>> From: Benoit Sigoure >>> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:12:52 +0100 >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ make -p VPATH=C:/cygwin | grep -A2 -i vpath >>> [...] >>> -- >>> # VPATH Search Paths >>> >>> # No `vpath' search paths. >>> >>> # No general (`VPATH' variable) search path. >> >> 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 ;)
This does raise the question of why you'd be using a cygwin version of make if you need to use colon paths. cgf _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
