From: jp@nuancecom.com (JP Shipherd) Subject: Re: Picking up include directories automatically 21 May 1997 20:53:52 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970520103100.00a15490.cygnus.gnu-win32@awesome.nuance.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: jp@awesome.nuance.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Original-To: "Mikey" , "cygnus" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".