Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/16/04:50:14
john AT octel DOT com (John Cook) writes:
>I just installed DJGPP 2.0 and am trying to use the GNU make utility.
>make appears to use the Unix convention of using the forward slash
>character for separating parts of a pathname. Is there a way I can
>have make follow the DOS convention of using the backslash character
>instead?
Of course, there is such a way: just use them to your heart's content,
but mind the pitfall: you *have* to write \\ for every \ you use, as GNU
make uses \ as an escape character in command lines, much like Unix
shells do.
(This is also in the FAQ, I think...)
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (Aachen, Germany)
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