Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths

2002-03-22 Thread Johan Bezem
Christopher Faylor wrote: > That means you send the ChangeLog entry (not the diff of a ChangeLog > entry) and patch in clear text so that the barrier to inspecting your > work is minimal. This is standard across every project that I am > aware of. Sorry for the attachment then. Here it's once a

Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths

2002-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:23:16AM +0100, Johan Bezem wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> >So, my question: Where can I find the repository of the CygWin make >> >package? Or otherwise, how to proceed from here? >> >> You can't. Use the make source tarball and submit ChangeLog + patch >> here

Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths

2002-03-22 Thread Johan Bezem
Christopher Faylor wrote: > >So, my question: Where can I find the repository of the CygWin make > >package? Or otherwise, how to proceed from here? > > You can't. Use the make source tarball and submit ChangeLog + patch > here. OK, here it goes. I'm not aware of standard testing procedures or

Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths

2002-03-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 05:08:45PM +0100, Johan Bezem wrote: >The GNU make project (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make) does not >contain the CygWin enhancements in its main development tree, Nope. They were unresponsive in my attempts to get the changes into the main branch. I sent two requ

Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths

2002-03-21 Thread Johan Bezem
Hi, OK, so I think I fixed the problem with the vpath directive, I fixed another related problem on the way (the GPATH variable shows the same symptoms), I tested both fixes on my machine, and wrote a ChangeLog entry. Now, I want to contribute these fixes into the development chain for CygWin mak

Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths

2002-03-12 Thread Johan Bezem
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 v

Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths

2002-03-01 Thread Soren Andersen
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

Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths

2002-02-28 Thread Colm Aengus Murphy
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 els

Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths

2002-02-28 Thread Johan Bezem
Hi, Colm Aengus Murphy wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I am seeing strange behaviour when using dos paths in a gnu make vpath > directive. > The makefile I am using to test this funny is as follows: > > --- > vpath %.out c:/make_test/out

Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths

2002-02-27 Thread Colm Aengus Murphy
Hi folks, I am seeing strange behaviour when using dos paths in a gnu make vpath directive. The makefile I am using to test this funny is as follows: --- vpath %.out c:/make_test/out #vpath %.out /cygdrive/c/make_test/out #VPATH =