Thanks everyone for your help. Turns out that the backquoting specified here won't work to a shell incompatibility (I don't care to fix this now). However, $(shell ... ) does work so thanks.
Nate 11/18/03 11:35:07 AM, Shankar Unni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Nate Bohlmann wrote: > >> How exactly does a command line tool help with VPATH'ing inside of Make? > >You use cygpath to generate names to pass to your broken compiler. (Yes, >broken - Win32, and most tools running on it like VC++, are perfectly >happy with "/" as path separators). > >I.e. instead of just doing > >.c.o: > $(BROKENCOMPILER) -c $? -o $*.o # or whatever > >You do > >.c.o: > $(BROKENCOMPILER) -c `cygpath -w $?` -o `cygpath -w $*`.o > >(Those are back-quotes, by the way). > > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
