Drive letters in 3.80

[Tobias Herzke]

I have read in the archives that there is special code in make to detect
windows drive letters in file names followed by a colon. (This code
seems to live in w32/pathstuff.c)

I am trying to use make-3.80 built for msys (config patch and make.exe
binary here: http://visual-mingw.sourceforge.net/zip/make-3.80/msys/ )
with a Makfile that includes dependencies containing drive letters and
colons, but I get the "multiple target patterns" error message from
make. It looks like this make does not contain the code to detect drive
letters.

Drive letter detection works ok with make-3.79.1 (msys) with the same
Makefile.

How can I activate this drive letter code in make-3.80?

Regards,
  Tobias


Example: Makefile with just 1 rule:

$ echo "1" > component1

$ echo "2" > component2

$ pwd
/home/t-herzke/test

$ cmd /c cd
C:\Programme\msys\1.0\home\t-herzke\test

$ cat Makefile
target: component1 c:/Programme/msys/1.0/home/t-herzke/test/component2
        cat $^ >$@

$ make # this is make-3.79.1 and works ok
cat component1 c:/Programme/msys/1.0/home/t-herzke/test/component2 >target

$ cat target
1
2

$ rm target

$ make-3.80
Makefile:1: *** multiple target patterns.  Stop.

$ make -v
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for i686-pc-msys
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Report bugs to <address@hidden>.


address@hidden ~/test
$ make-3.80 -v
GNU Make 3.80
Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.