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Re: Failure to expand macro (fwd)


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Failure to expand macro (fwd)
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 05:40:29 +0300

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 21:45:53 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Given this, it seems likely that one or more of the paths in OBJS
> contains a drive specifier such as C:, which the Cygwin port of make
> will interpret as an extra colon.
> 
> Remember that Cygwin is a UNIX environment.  You cannot use any Windows
> pathname facilities in Cygwin; they will not be recognized.

Actually, the Cygwin build of Make does recognize file names with
drive letters, even though Cygwin generally frowns on using such file
names.



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