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To: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
cc: gcc-patches AT gcc DOT gnu DOT org, DJGPP Workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Fixproto fix 
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 19 May 2000 15:57:53 EDT.
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:21:06 -0600
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From: Jeffrey A Law <law AT cygnus DOT com>
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

  In message <39256481 DOT 9219 DOT 1F1682 AT localhost>you write:
  > > 
  > >   In message <39130EA2 DOT D42C42CC AT softhome DOT net>you write:
  > >   > Currently fixproto script does not understand DOS style absolute
  > >   > paths with drive letters. This leads to paths like
  > 
  > > This can't be correct since it will mess up on systems which allow direct
  > ory
  > > names like c; (ie every unix system I'm aware of).
  > > 
  > > You'll have to find some way to conditionalize this behavior for
  > > systems with dos-like naming conventions.
  > 
  > Ok, how about the idea below.
  > 
  > gcc/Changelog:
  > 
  > 2000-05-19 Mark Elbrecht <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
  > 
  > 	* config/i386/x-djgpp (FIXPROTO_EXTRA_PATTERN): Define.
  > 	* Makefile.in: Pass it to fixproto.
  > 	* fixproto: Use it. Update copyright.
Based on comments from Alexandre about ':' appearing in Unix filenames
confusing the living daylights out of make and other tools I went ahead
and installed Laurynas's original patch:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-05/msg00393.html

Interested folks can follow the thread links to get the full discussion.

jeff