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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:32:33 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: make 3.80 and VPATH
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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.

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

cgf

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