Subject: Re: RE: Problems with Make, VPATH and MS-DOS paths
From: Nate Bohlmann <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:52:59 -0700

11/17/03 12:31:23 PM, Hannu E K Nevalainen <[email-masked]> wrote:

>> From: Nate Bohlmann
>> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:53 PM
>
>> Hi,
>>   I'm having a problem getting MS-DOS paths to work properly with
>> VPATH under
>> GNU Make 3.80.  The problem is that the VPATH processing tacks on
>> a Unix path
>> separator ('/') to the end of the VPATH giving me a source file
>> name something
>> similar to code\src\fw/foo.c.  This is a significant problem for
>> the compiler
>> I'm using (NOT gcc) since it spits out map and list files based
>> on the stem of
>> the input source name which it decides is 'fw/foo.c'.
><SNIP>
>
>$ cygpath --help
>
>IMO it should help to solve all your problems. cygpath is part of the base
>package so there is no need go looking for it either; if you have cygwin
>then you have cygpath too.
<SNIP>

How exactly does a command line tool help with VPATH'ing inside of Make?

--
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/