From:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: When in Rome...
Date:	Wed, 08 Apr 1998 22:16:37 +0200
Organization:	Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik
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Edward F. Sowell wrote:
> 
> I have a complaint about the way GNU make deals with the DOS/Windows
> path separator, '\'. It has been pointed out to me that I can't
> use mydir\myfile in a GNU makefile because \ is an escape character for
> GNU make.
> The suggested workarounds are (a) use \\ or (b) use /. Well, there are
> cases
> (like mine) where neither will really work.
> 
> First, a silly little example. The makefile:
> ../gpp/myfunct.obj:     myfunct.cpp
>         gcc -v -c -o ../gpp/myfunct.obj myfunct.cpp
>         move myfunct.obj f:/spark/doc/examples/int
> 
> will not work, failing at the move. Says "Too many parameters - /spark"
> Apparently, the / are not converted to \ for DOS commands. If I change
> the move to
[...]

Get the fileutils, replace "move" by "mv" and live happily
ever after. You also get "rm", which is much better than
"del", and some other nice utilities.

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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