Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 13:45:20 -0500
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: gnu make woes


> OBJPATH=h:
> OBJ= $(OBJPATH)/file.o
> all:	$(OBJ) 
> 	echo hello
>
> GNU make says it is expecting a % sign (due to the expanding OBJPATH to h:)
> This is ugly for a make that is supposed to run under DOS.

Hmmm... that is a problem, but I don't see any way around it.  Most
Unix programs don't grok drive letters correctly (paths don't start
with slash, colon not recognized as separator - end up with c:/tmp
instead of c:tmp sometimes).  What a silly operating system anyway.