A temp fix for the Bug on the windows 32 port of gnu make

2000-03-16 Thread Tianmiao Hu
Hi, This is Tianmiao again. I browsed through the vpath.c and pathstuff.c and figured out a temp solution for the bug I reported. Here are my modified files. I put a comment line before all my changes. The comment line contains the word "Tianmiao". Basically, I have created a w32ftob() fu

Re[2]: Bug on the windows 32 port of gnu make

2000-03-16 Thread Tianmiao Hu
Hi, I read the "How not to use VPATH" on your website. I think there is still a problem with this particular windows 32 port. In my example, I am using VPATH to find both source and target(it is a bad idea). But indeed make found both source and target through VPATH. THE PROBLEM is the retur

Re: Bug on the windows 32 port of gnu make

2000-03-15 Thread Paul D. Smith
This isn't a bug. This is how VPATH is designed to work. Please see the discussion of "How Not to Use VPATH" at my web site below: http://www.ultranet.com/~pauld/gmake/ HTH. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug on the windows 32 port of gnu make

2000-03-15 Thread Tianmiao Hu
Dear Sir/Madam, Let me specify what I did with the windows 32 version of gnu make utility. I want to use make to compile some inter-related java codes. You know, java name space is based on directory. So I have some files under one directory, some files under another. The output class files w