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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: Problems with Make, VPATH and MS-DOS paths Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:35:07 -0800 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (Compact) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Nate Bohlmann wrote: > How exactly does a command line tool help with VPATH'ing inside of Make? You use cygpath to generate names to pass to your broken compiler. (Yes, broken - Win32, and most tools running on it like VC++, are perfectly happy with "/" as path separators). I.e. instead of just doing .c.o: $(BROKENCOMPILER) -c $? -o $*.o # or whatever You do .c.o: $(BROKENCOMPILER) -c `cygpath -w $?` -o `cygpath -w $*`.o (Those are back-quotes, by the way). -- 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/