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Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths
- From: "Johan Bezem" <jbezem at csksoftware dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:18:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths
- Organization: CSK Software AG
- References: <3C7D11A2.8070202@s3group.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Hi,
Colm Aengus Murphy wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I am seeing strange behaviour when using dos paths in a gnu make vpath
> directive.
> The makefile I am using to test this funny is as follows:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> vpath %.out c:/make_test/out
Error!
> #vpath %.out /cygdrive/c/make_test/out
Works.
>
> #VPATH = c:/make_test/out
Works.
> #VPATH = /cygdrive/c/make_test/out
Works.
>
> test.out : \
> test.input\
> ; echo test.input > out/test.out
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> What I find is that vpath doesn't work when given a dos path.
> VPATH on the other hand does.
Thanks, this is exactly the same problem I've seen just yesterday.
<SNIP>
> P.S. I am using gnu make 3.79.1-4 and 1.3.5-2 of the cygwin dll.
Here: 3.79.1-5 and 1.3.9-1 respectively.
After upgrading to 1.3.10-1 just yet, the problem persists.
I'd say, this is a real candidate for a bug.
Anyone else?
Thanks,
Johan Bezem
CSK Software AG
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