Re: Ant: Re: [ros-dev] mingw32-make erros in rbuild

[Hartmut Birr]

Hi,

if you have a sh.exe in the search path, make uses sh.exe instead of cmd.exe to execute
some of the commands. Sh.exe 
doesn't understand paths which are containing back slashes. 
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTO/setup_a_build_environment_for_W…
describes, how you can setup a build 
environment.

- Hartmut



tobitosso wrote:
>   --- Royce Mitchell III <royce3(a)ev1.net>
> schrieb:
>  
> >   tobitosso wrote:
> >
> > >   perhaps even Windows itself understand using /
> >  instead
> > >   of \.
> > >   
> > >  
> >  No, Windows does *not* understand using / instead of
> >  \ in all the cases 
> >  we need for rbuild.
> >
> >  Your suggestions will break the build for those not
> >  using your build 
> >  environment ( the majority of us ) 
>  I reinstalled MinGW and MSYS yesterday before
> sending
>  this e-mail and now everything worked until using
>  makfile.auto is started.(I used the original sources
>  not the ones changed by me). In makefile.auto,
>  mingw32-make doesn't find some file in
>  APPS\UTILS\NET\ARP which actually exists because it
>  looks for somethingAPPSUTILSNETARPsomething in the
>  toplevel dir.
>  Is there code in rbuild that changes / to \ in pathes
>  when generating Makefile.auto. If yes, please tell me
>  where and don't just say my MSYS and MinGW is wrong.
>  If not, where are the \ in pathes introduced in making
>  Makefile.auto?
>  
>  Thanks
>  
>  tobitosso
>