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Re: 3.81 and windows paths
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: "Paul D. Smith" <psmith at gnu dot org>
- Cc: brian at dessent dot net, cygwin at cygwin dot com, bug-make at gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:00:47 +0300
- Subject: Re: 3.81 and windows paths
- References: <20060727195042.GC27890@brasko.net> <44C92033.A2978A8E@dessent.net> <17609.11132.462789.443104@lemming.engeast.baynetworks.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:09:16 -0400
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <psmith@gnu.org>
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, bug-make@gnu.org
>
> I believe that this support is limited to handling drive letters without
> choking on the ":", actually: IIRC the native support still requires
> forward slashes (/) rather than backslashes (\). I could be wrong
> though.
It is indeed safer to use forward slashes throughout in the native
Windows port, but backslashes are supported in most places in the
Makefile, in particular in rule's commands.
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