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To: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
cc: gcc-patches AT gcc DOT gnu DOT org, DJGPP Workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Fixproto fix 
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 05 May 2000 21:10:42 +0300.
             <39130EA2 DOT D42C42CC AT softhome DOT net> 
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Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 22:35:30 -0600
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From: Jeffrey A Law <law AT cygnus DOT com>
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  In message <39130EA2 DOT D42C42CC AT softhome DOT net>you write:
  > Currently fixproto script does not understand DOS style absolute
  > paths with drive letters. This leads to paths like d:/gcc/obj/c:/djgpp/incl
  > ude
  > which are incorrect and cause infinite recursion while fixproto'ing
  > limits.h.
  > 
  > This patch rewrites absolute path checks to make them like in another
  > script, ylwrap.
  > 
  > (Andris, is it useful in anyway for your 2.95.2 port?)
  > 
  > 2000-05-05 Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
  > 
  > 	* fixproto: Recognize DOS paths with drive letters as absolute paths.
This can't be correct since it will mess up on systems which allow directory
names like c; (ie every unix system I'm aware of).

You'll have to find some way to conditionalize this behavior for
systems with dos-like naming conventions.

jeff