Subject: Re: Problems with Make, VPATH and MS-DOS paths
From: Nate Bohlmann <[email-masked]>
To: Shankar Unni <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:07:45 -0700

Thanks everyone for your help.  Turns out that the backquoting specified here 
won't work to a shell incompatibility (I don't care to fix this now).  However, 
$(shell ... ) does work so thanks.

Nate

11/18/03 11:35:07 AM, Shankar Unni <[email-masked]> wrote:

>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).
>
>
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