Re: CLASSPATH separator in Makefile.am

[Nic Ferrier]

David Neary <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm not quite sure whose job this is (automake or autoconf - I suspect the
> latter), so I'm sending this to both lists. Hope this doesn't upset anyone
> :)
> 
> I have a java project which, among other things, recuperates the CLASSPATH
> environment variable, and adds some stuff to it in the Makefile. I have a
> Makefile.am target which looks like this...
> 
> gnu/%.class: @srcdir@/src/gnu/%.java
>         @JAVAC@ @JAVACFLAGS@ \
>                 -d . \
>                 -classpath "${CLASSPATH}:@srcdir@/src:." \
>                 @srcdir@/src/gnu/xml/libxmlj/transform/*.java
> 
> This is fine on Unix, but obviously doesn't go down well on Win32. Modifying
> the :s to ;s explicitly in the Makefile.am gets it through the Windows
> build, which is fine. But is there a way to have an AC_SEPARATOR defined
> which "converts" stuff like this to the correct format for the target
> platform at the configure stage? It would be nice not to have to manually
> edit makefiles and configure scripts in Win32.

I think the Makefile.am author simply has to use a variable to
specify the separator.

The variable can easily be OS dependant. The fact that it doesn't do
it in this project is an ommission.


Nic Ferrier