> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul D. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 12:57 PM
> To: Christopher Jones
> Cc: Bernard Dautrevaux; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: New Cygwin Net Release (make error)
>
>
> %% "Christopher Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> HTML isn't necessary on the mailing list; plain text is just
> fine, thanks.
Sorry about that. Outlook sucks and it should have been in plain text... sorry.
> cj> So I went off and tried to duplicate my problem with
> the smallest
> cj> Makefile possible and have succeeded. Turns out the problem is
> cj> with a target macro's value indicating a dos style filename,
> cj> e.g. e:/dir/file (yes, with UNIX slashes) even with
> MAKE_MODE=UNIX
> cj> set in the environment. Using something like //e/dir/file works
> cj> of course. I think that on win32 e:/dir/file is supposed to be
> cj> allowed without confusing the make parser but I cannot find much
> cj> in the info documentation to help make this clearer (it did work
> cj> in the past with make 3.75, the cygwin 1.1 net release
> uses 3.77).
>
> It would be nice if you'd included the "smallest Makefile
> possible", as
> well as the error you got and what you expected it to do :).
I forgot to send the attachment, oops.
Makefile