Re: VPATH of the form C:/foo

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:30:00 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.make.windows
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> From: Benoit Sigoure <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:14:27 +0100
> 
> Everything works fine excepted that when I use a VPATH of the form C:/ 
> something, the files in the source tree are not found because make / 
> seems/ to separate the VPATH with colons.  I believed that, on  
> Windows, the VPAH would be semi-colon separated, but maybe I was wrong.
> 
> Is this a known bug?  Or unsupported?

It will be supported in the next release of Make.  For now, try the
patch from here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-w32/2006-08/msg00104.html

Note that after patching, you will need to regenerate the configure
script, then repeat the "./configure; make; make install" dance.