Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/01/18/17:07:25
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 03:06:38PM -0500, David Means wrote:
>
>On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 11:46, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> {snip}
>> >http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/make/make_27.html
>>
>> This is cygwin make, not djgpp make. Cygwin make uses colons, not
>> semicolons. If semicolons actually *work*, that's a bug.
>
>Actually, it's not cygwin make, it's GNU:
Hmm. Either 1) we are splitting hairs, 2) you are using something other
than the make.exe that is released with cygwin, or 3) you are confused.
Cygwin's make is a variation of GNU make and it doesn't (or shouldn't)
use semicolons. If you *are* using cygwin's make and semicolons are a
solution then that's a bug. If you are not using the version of make
that is distributed with cygwin, then, well, er, I'm not sure why
you're even responding to this thread.
Just to be really really clear: The whole point of cygwin is to
avoid things like colons in filenames. So, colons as path separators
are perfectly valid.
cgf
>$ make --version
>GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
>Built for i686-pc-cygwin
>Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
> Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
>There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
>PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
>
>The "real" home for GNU make has the same statement:
>
>"In the VPATH variable, directory names are separated by colons or
>blanks. The order in which directories are listed is the order followed
>by make in its search. (On MS-DOS and MS-Windows, semi-colons are used
>as separators of directory names in VPATH, since the colon can be used
>in the pathname itself, after the drive letter.) "
>
>http://www.gnu.org/manual/make-3.79.1/html_mono/make.html#SEC27
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