%% Andreas Büning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ab> In July 2005 I sent an email to this list because the new builtin ab> function abspath does not support drive letters. I also sent a patch ab> to fix this. The last information I got about this issue was the ab> following email (24th of July, 2005) by Paul Smith stating that he ab> wanted to find a different solution:
You need to work with the folks on the make-w32@gnu.org mailing list to resolve these issues and come up with a patch which is acceptable to those folks (and to me... which mainly means it doesn't impact the POSIX versions much or at all). Support by GNU make for the non-POSIX operating systems is unfortunately somewhat ad hoc. The official maintainers don't have any Windows systems and don't even compile GNU make there, much less do any development. We rely solely on a group of trusted Windows programmers to provide patches and do the testing. As long as it doesn't appear to impact the other ports, I generally just apply patches which have been agreed to by a quorum on the make-w32@gnu.org list. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
