Re: Bug in builtin function abspath (again)

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Andreas Büning <address@hidden> writes:

  ab> In July 2005 I sent an email to this list because the new builtin
  ab> function abspath does not support drive letters. I also sent a patch
  ab> to fix this. The last information I got about this issue was the
  ab> following email (24th of July, 2005) by Paul Smith stating that he
  ab> wanted to find a different solution:

You need to work with the folks on the address@hidden mailing list to
resolve these issues and come up with a patch which is acceptable to
those folks (and to me... which mainly means it doesn't impact the POSIX
versions much or at all).


Support by GNU make for the non-POSIX operating systems is unfortunately
somewhat ad hoc.  The official maintainers don't have any Windows
systems and don't even compile GNU make there, much less do any
development.  We rely solely on a group of trusted Windows programmers
to provide patches and do the testing.  As long as it doesn't appear to
impact the other ports, I generally just apply patches which have been
agreed to by a quorum on the address@hidden list.

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