On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 08:02, Patrick R. Michaud <pmich...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 07:04:28AM -0700, webmas...@cosmicperl.com via RT
> wrote:
>> Infinoid helped me track the problem down to * being escaped on some of
>> the directories for the cleanup. So things like:-
>> $(PMC_DIR)\*.h
>> Need to be:-
>> $(PMC_DIR)\\*.h
>>
>> Parrot already does this in it's makefile on Win32 so doesn't have this
>> issue. I've attached a patch that fixes things.
>
> Does this interfere with other make tools on Win32, or is this
> universal to all windows-based makes?
>
it's the shell that's running this, so the double-backslash is
necessary across win32 no matter which make engine is used.
~jerry
