Re: Schedule for GNU make 3.81

[Earnie Boyd]

<quote who="Paul D. Smith">
> %% "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   >> Hm.  Maybe the thing to do is for make itself to translate the
>   >> pathnames to always have "/" instead of "\"?
>
>   ez> That would be my suggestion as well.  The DJGPP port does that
> already
>   ez> (in its library code, so don't look for that in Make's sources).
>
> The trick is knowing where/when to do this.  Some places spring to mind:
>
>   * Translate argv[0]
>
>   * Translate the results of the getpwd() call that sets CURDIR,
>     etc. and also provides the string for "entering directory..." output.
>
>   * Translate the results of $(wildcard ...) (?)
>

 * Translate the result of getenv ().

Don't forget though, when spawning a process you need the command line to
use \ instead of /.

Earnie

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