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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:40:41 -0700
From: Christopher Seawood <cls@seawood.org>
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Subject: Re: make 3.80 and VPATH
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

 > 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.

Ok.  That's what I was attempting to determine.  We have been relying 
upon that behavior for the past year that we've been using cygwin to 
build Mozilla.  That will clearly need to change.

 > For the record, I've just resurrected a make 3.79 version and tried 
this and
 > I don't detect any difference in behavior.

That's really odd since others are reporting this exact same problem 
that goes away when they downgrade to 3.79.1-7.  You tried it with 
--unix as well?

(Sorry about the delayed response.  I was offline last week for Comic-Con.)

- cls


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