On Saturday 23 October 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Stefano, Valentin, > > please discuss patches on the -patches list; and please keep the > original poster in Cc:, thanks. > > I haven't looked at the patch in detail yet, but will, now that > the assignment papers are done (thanks!). > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 04:05:02PM CEST: > > On Friday 03 September 2010, Valentin David wrote: > > > * --libdir= can be called several times, the arguments can also have a > > > list of paths separated by a colon. > > > We should really use the system PATH separator here, for better portability > > (such PATH separator is already computed and AC_SUBST'd by configure as > > `...@path_separator@'). > > Why would an arbitrary path, having nothing to do with the PATH > environment variable, needlessly have the same system-dependent > separator? So that, on windows, one can do e.g. "autoamke --libdir 'D:\my-am-libdir'" -- or am I missing something?
> Other paths don't do this, either. Which kind of PATHs are you referring to? For example, PERL5LIB and PYTHONPATH both shares the PATH format (entries separated by ":" on Unix, by ";" on Windows). Regards, Stefano