On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Duane Campbell wrote:
> Erik, are you familiar with subst command?
>
> If not, you might find it handy as a work-around for windows limitations:
>subst someUnusedDriveLetter: c:\very-long-src-dir
> like
>subst S: c:\very-long-src-dir
> Then use S:\ in-place
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The easiest way around the problem is this:
>
> VPATH = $(abspath ..\very-long-build-dir);$(abspath ..\yet-another-one)
>
>
I cannot do that, because very-long-src-dir contains spaces.
What I have done instead is to detect this condition
Erik, are you familiar with subst command?
If not, you might find it handy as a work-around for windows limitations:
subst someUnusedDriveLetter: c:\very-long-src-dir
like
subst S: c:\very-long-src-dir
Then use S:\ in-place of c:\very-long-src-dir\ throughout your makefile.
FYI: subst oper
> Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 21:55:11 +0200
> From: Erik Carstensen
> Cc: Duane Campbell , make-w32@gnu.org
>
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>
> > Maybe c:\very-long-src-dir\..\very-long-build-dir together exceeded
> > 260 characters?
>
>
> No, make can find 'c:\very-lon
