AW: [PATCH] source.s: Fix problem handling windows like path with MinGW

[Masaki Muranaka]

On 2006/06/18, at 12:23, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> [Please don't take this discussion off the mailing list.]
>
>> From: "Michael Fischer" <fischermi@t-online.de>
>> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:32:25 +0200
>>
>> Why ":" and not ";" ?
>>
>> If I compile the GDB under MinGW, DIRNAME_SEPARATOR was set to ":".
>> If you take a look in gdb\defs.h, ";" is only defined in case of
>> __MSDOS__. I think MinGW will not set this define?!
>
> What happens if you modify defs.h to define DIRNAME_SEPARATOR as `;'?
> Does the problem go away?
>
>> I think in this case, we should change the add_path function too.
>
> I think if DIRNAME_SEPARATOR is `;', add_path will do what you need.
>
> Could you please check that?

BTW, Why do we use DIRNAME_SEPARATOR, instead of PATH_SEPARATOR ?
As PATH_SEPARATOR is detected by configure, it is trustable.

I think they will be same value on self builds, right?
Also we can choice to modify xm-.h on cross builds.

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Masaki Muranaka
Monami software