> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:44:31 +0300 > From: "Alexander V. Trushkin" <trush...@iitp.ru> > > In spite of that the upper directory in Windows contains files of the > kind ..\*.x, the construction of the type: > > $(wildcard ..\*.x) > > returns an empty list as well as > > a : ..\*.x > > does not find any prerequisite, though > > a : ..\b > > does work, and everything works when > '\' is replaced by '/'.
This is a ``feature'' of the $wildcard function: a backslash is an escape character, not a directory separator. So "..\*.x" means files that literally include the * in their names (of course, on Windows, there cannot be such files). Using the forward slash is the way to go. > Maybe it will be interesting for you in order to make the behaviour > uniform both in Unix and Windows versions. This behavior _is_ uniform on Unix and Windows. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
