[Axiom-developer] Re: building wh-sandbox on Windows

[Waldek Hebisch]

> Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> > Having read this thread many times, it appears to me that the
> > whole thread is confused.
> > 
> > First, I think people should state clearly and unambigously what
> > is the problem they are trying to solve.
> > 
> > Second, people should state very clearly what is the problem they 
> > are trying to avoid with relative paths.
> > 
> 
> If you missed it we are trying to solve the following exercise:
> 
> Given make variables $< and $@ write a make rule which compiles
> Lisp file from $< and puts the results in address@hidden
> 
> You can easily check that
> 
> echo '(compile-file "$<" :output-file "$@") (quit)' | ${DEPSYS}
> 
> does not work with relative paths (it works fine with absolute
> paths).
>

In case you did not notice: I wrote earlier that we want to solve
inderlying problem, but in the Makefile we can arrange "$<" to
be in current directory, which solves the immediate problem.
 
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                              Waldek Hebisch
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