> From: Paul Smith <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:17:43 -0500 > Cc: [email protected] > > As for why the "/" instead of "\", make is a POSIX tool and it deals > with "/" as a directory separator. The Windows port of make has some > facilities to read Windows paths instead, but when make constructs a > pathname (as it does here as a result of vpath) it will always use "/" > as the directory separator. > > However, almost all Windows commands accept both "\" and "/" as > directory separators, so usually this is not a problem.
Indeed. And if some tool does care, just take the argument in quotes, and it won't. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
