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From: Broeker AT axp03 DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: backslashes for DOS pathnames within a makefile?
Date: 15 Apr 96 12:33:42 GMT
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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)