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From: "Soren Andersen" <soren_andersen AT speedymail DOT org>
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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:51:45 -0500
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Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths
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On 28 Feb 2002 at 11:24, Colm Aengus Murphy wrote:

> Hi Johan,
> 
> I took a quick look at source code for make 3.79.1-5.
> 
> It looks to me like vpath.c (build_vpath_lists) does conversion of Win32
> paths to posix ones for the VPATH variable but not for vpath. Not being a
> software programmer I'm not in a position to provide a patch, but maybe
> someone else could ?
> 
> Colm A

I am not a software programmer either ;-)  (irregardless of the apparent assumptions made 
about me in the past on this List) -- at least not really a "C" programmer (rather, japh-er) but 
I will take a look at this and see if I can fix it. Mind you, I wouldn't hold my breath or base 
my plans for a major product roll-out on my quick success; I have not yet ever tried to build 
`make' from source, so that's the first and possibly not trivial hurdle. Maybe somebody else 
will therefore get there before me, but I thought I'd offer you assurance now that at least 
one pair of eyeballs out here will be looking into this.

    Luck,
     Soren Andersen


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