Re: allow convenient library in subdirectory

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> writes:

 >> Oh, sorry I was not DOS-friendly.  My understanding is that
 >> presently Automake isn't DOS-friendly at all.  But of course if
 >> you are aiming at this you have to start somewhere.

 Tim> Well, as I understand it automake needs very few changes to work
 Tim> on my system (DOS box under WinME), so I figured it was already
 Tim> DOS-friendly where it counted.

Hmm... my DOS/Windows inexperience shows off.  I thought that
some work would be needed to turn the slashes embeded in the
Makefiles into back-slashs at some point (config.status).
Obviously (from your comment) it works as is.

This leads me to two other questions: 

  - Does your comment apply to (plain) MS-DOS too?  (I'm aware
    that Windows accepts Unix-style filenames, but does it still
    stand for DOS?  So far I believed it was not the case.)

  - Since Windows accepts slashes, and Unices do not accept
    backslashes, shouldn't Automake constraint the programmer to
    use the portable way? (i.e. banning backslashes)

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz