From: Eric Backus <ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com>
Subject: Re: problem with VPATH and make 3.69
To: leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com (Marty Leisner)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 10:29:36 PDT
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]

marty (leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com  leisner AT eso DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com) wrote:
> How does vpath in make handle :?
> I tried
> 
> VPATH=..:../bsd 
> 
> and it didn't work
> but
> 
> VPATH=.. ../bsd
> 
> worked

At least on UNIX, VPATH is supposed to be directories separated with
colons, just like the PATH environment variable.

You might try switching to semicolons as separators (this is normally
how the PATH variable works on DOS), or you might try escaping the
colons with backslashes.
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