Target-specific variable corruption

2000-02-14 Thread Brian Poynor
Hi, I never expected to find a bug in gmake, but I think this is one. It appears that static assignments from global variables into target- specific ones result in corruption if the content of the variable is large enough. Please see the attached Makefile for the explanation of the problem, ver

Win32: make does not support paths like ///path

2000-02-14 Thread Yaroslav Sokolov
Hello! I tried to use GNU make on Windows NT 4.0 with CYGNUS. Pwd returns string looking ///path . I tried use this paths in makefiles. The make does not want to understand it. I attached not working makefile and archive which can be extracted to c:\ and used to replay the situation. I used ma

Backslash + newline are NOT translated into empty sequence in commands

2000-02-14 Thread Yaroslav Sokolov
Hello! I need to create one very long string from makefile. I tied to split it using backslash, as I did it in shell script. But, when I executed makefile, the backslash was translated into space. I think it is not good. In the documentation there is description: "If you would like to split a