Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:32:33 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: make 3.80 and VPATH Message-ID: <20030712173233.GA18103@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3F0DE2D4.8010801@seawood.org> <3F0F274F.3060700@seawood.org> <3F0F78AA.3060708@seawood.org> <20030712151917.GA15669@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030712151917.GA15669@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:19:17AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>That example works fine if I do 'make --win32' but fails when just using >>'make'. That is a change in behavior from the previous version of make. >> The testcase works with either of --unix & --win32 when using make >>3.79.1-7 . > >As it should. Colon is a path separator. So, to answer your question, yes >it is by design that VPATH is not translating MS-DOS paths. If it was doing >so before, it was clearly a bug. For the record, I've just resurrected a make 3.79 version and tried this and I don't detect any difference in behavior. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/