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

[Mark Millard]

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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