Re: VPATH of the form C:/foo

Benoit Sigoure <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 15, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Cc: [email protected]
>> From: Benoit Sigoure <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:36:45 +0100
>>
>>> 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 ;)
>
> Sorry for the long delay.  Please try the patch below:
>
> 2007-12-15  Eli Zaretskii  <[email protected]>
>
> 	* vpath.c (construct_vpath_list) [HAVE_DOS_PATHS]: Support VPATH
> 	values that use `:' in drive letters, when PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR is
> 	also `:'.


Works for me, thank you very much!

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Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory
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