VPATH broken with multiple dirs

David Means dmeans@the-means.net
Sun Jan 19 00:14:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 11:46, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> {snip}
> >http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/make/make_27.html
> 
> This is cygwin make, not djgpp make.  Cygwin make uses colons, not
> semicolons.  If semicolons actually *work*, that's a bug.
> 

Actually, it's not cygwin make, it's GNU: 

$ make --version
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for i686-pc-cygwin
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


The "real" home for GNU make has the same statement:

"In the VPATH variable, directory names are separated by colons or
blanks. The order in which directories are listed is the order followed
by make in its search. (On MS-DOS and MS-Windows, semi-colons are used
as separators of directory names in VPATH, since the colon can be used
in the pathname itself, after the drive letter.) "

http://www.gnu.org/manual/make-3.79.1/html_mono/make.html#SEC27

-- 
David Means

The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a
dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first.
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