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Subject:	Re: 3.81 and windows paths
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> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:09:16 -0400
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <psmith AT gnu DOT org>
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, bug-make AT gnu DOT org
> 
> I believe that this support is limited to handling drive letters without
> choking on the ":", actually: IIRC the native support still requires
> forward slashes (/) rather than backslashes (\).  I could be wrong
> though.

It is indeed safer to use forward slashes throughout in the native
Windows port, but backslashes are supported in most places in the
Makefile, in particular in rule's commands.

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