[bug #63638] the PATH environment variable seems to get modified when a makefile is remade

[Eli Zaretskii]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #63638 (project make):

It is a subtle feature of the native Windows port of GNU Make that it attempts
to support PATH variables delimited by colons and semi-colons alike.  It does
that by converting colon delimiters to semi-colons.  Which is a bit tricky,
given the drive letters with colons.  So Make has some logic to decide when a
colon in PATH is from a drive letter and when it is a delimiter between two
directories.  And a change we made in development of Make 4.4 broke the
fragile logic of that tricky code.

Attached please find a patch to fix this bug.


(file #54209)

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