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Re: Picking up include directories automatically
- To: "Mikey" <jeffdb at netzone dot com>, "cygnus" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Picking up include directories automatically
- From: JP Shipherd <jp at nuancecom dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:31:03 -0700
At 10:39 AM 5/15/97 -0700, Mikey wrote:
>Since the dll and gcc now support dos style naming.
>and the dll supports UNC's the need for // isn't really apparent,
>at least not to me .
>I'm kind of surprised that Geoff left the support in the dll,
>(plus \\\\c is a pretty awkward way to refer to c)
>
Here's a reason for keeping the //c/dir rather than using the dos c:/dir
export MYPATH=c:/dir
Now put this in your Makefile and watch gnumake choke:
$(MYPATH)/target.o: target.c
$(BUILD_OBJECT)
Whoops now you've got a colon in your target. That just don't work.
--jp
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