Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81?

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 06:30:22PM +0100, Mark Fisher wrote:
> On 7/24/06, Joachim Achtzehnter <joachima@netacquire.com> wrote:
> >This sarcastic response to one sentence out of a much longer post quoted in
> >isolation suggests that a clarification is in order.
> 
> here here! i'd like to add that i'm getting fed up of reading sarcastic
> comments from cgf since i rejoined the mailing list.

The solution seems obvious...