Re: Any known problems with relative paths in VPATH on Windows?

Erik Carstensen <[email protected]> Tue, 7 May 2013 20:23:13 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.make.windows
Message-ID	<CALeBojSBUPsh4vUQ+bFSr72MV2utvEoXMrN32NeWQegyv6w_iQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Duane Campbell <[email protected]> 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 of c:\very-long-src-dir\ throughout your makefile.
>

Thanks, but I think that's too intrusive. My users don't want to map drive
letters manually (it would be easier to just tell them not to use spaces in
paths).

Erik

_______________________________________________
Make-w32 mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32