------- Additional Comments From aaronavay62 at aaronwl dot com 2004-11-02 22:31 ------- I agree with you with regards to the ugliness.
The entire situation is really too bad; the mutually incompatible path separators used by Unix and Windows is definitely one of the top ten compatibility problems in build systems. GCJ definitely needs to accept ; on Windows, as whats what javac does. I think it would also be excellent if it accepted :, but I don't know the whole story behind this. In particular, I think there was some sort of code that could handle nontrivial Windows path separator parsing, somewhere in GCC, but it was removed, or something. I really don't know enough about the issue to fix it myself. Maybe there is some other way to fix this in the Makefiles, to make it so it isn't so ugly? Should a bug be opened for "CLASSPATH_SEPARATOR in Makefiles is ugly"? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18104
