Soren Andersen wrote: > > On 28 Feb 2002 at 11:24, Colm Aengus Murphy wrote: > > > Hi Johan, > > > > I took a quick look at source code for make 3.79.1-5. > > > > It looks to me like vpath.c (build_vpath_lists) does conversion of Win32 > > paths to posix ones for the VPATH variable but not for vpath. Not being a > > software programmer I'm not in a position to provide a patch, but maybe > > someone else could ? > > > > Colm A > > I am not a software programmer either ;-) (irregardless of the apparent assumptions >made > about me in the past on this List) -- at least not really a "C" programmer (rather, >japh-er) but > I will take a look at this and see if I can fix it. Mind you, I wouldn't hold my >breath or base > my plans for a major product roll-out on my quick success; I have not yet ever tried >to build > `make' from source, so that's the first and possibly not trivial hurdle. Maybe >somebody else > will therefore get there before me, but I thought I'd offer you assurance now that >at least > one pair of eyeballs out here will be looking into this. > > Luck, > Soren Andersen
OK, here's some help. I suppose I dare call myself a programmer :), even though I haven't tried creating make from it's sources... In vpath.c lines 103-112 the CygWin specific path conversion is taken care of in the VPATH variable case. In the GPATH variable case (line 138-154), it looks like GPATH is not converted either. This would need some testing, but I suppose GPATH is hardly a regularly used feature... Copying lines 101-114 after line 146 should take care of that omission; the variable 'posixp' has been defines and used previously, but should still be in scope (lines 64-66), so it may be doubly used (unclean, but workable). The vpath directive is processed somwhere else. The only occurrence of the function 'construct_vpath_list' outside of vpath.c (and make.h for a prototype) is read.c In read.c lines 637-656, the directive is processed. And, alas, no CygWin processing of DOS-like paths there. Copying the same lines from vpath.c into read.c after line 652 might be all that's needed, but without actually doing the work+test, it's hard to tell whether everything is in scope. Be sure to define a variable 'posixp' in this case, however. If I find a few free minutes, I'll continue from here, but maybe this is enough input for you already. HTH, Johan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
