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RE: make 3.81-1 vs. 3.80-1 and C:\... style dependency handling differences


I got out my GNU Make (for 3.81) book by R. M. Stallman and others and find on page 22 (4.3.2):

QUOTE

Microsoft operating systems (MS-DOS and MS-Windows) use backslashes to separate directories in pathnames, like so:

c:\foo\bar\baz.c

This is equivalent to the Unix-style 'c:/foo/bar/baz.c' (the 'c:' part is the so-called drive letter). When make runs on these systems, it supports backslashes as well as the Unix-style forward slashes in pathnames. However, this support does not include the wildcard expansion, where backslash is a quote character. Therefore, you must use Unix-style slashes in these contexts.

END-QUOTE

This Section 4.3 is referenced from 4.1 where is says that "targets are file names separated by spaces. Wildcard characters may be used (see Section 4.3 ...".

Unfortunately the text is not explicit about the ":" handling despite the explicit example using ":".

Does the Cygwin 3.81-1 make at least match RMS's June 2004 definition of what make 3.81 should be like on MS-Windows? If not, what are the differences in this area compared to the manaul?

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Mark Millard
markmi@dsl-only.net




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