Detecting the need for DOS pathnames

[Paul Smith]

I'm working with someone on a port of GNU make to OS/2.  They can
actually run configure on that system, which is nice.  One of the macros
I've used a lot is HAVE_DOS_PATHS, which tells GNU make whether a
pathname could have backslashes and especially drive specifiers (C:
etc.) in the pathname.

Is there a good way to write this test in autoconf?  The person I'm
working with suggests something like this:

  if test "$PATH_SEPARATOR" = ';'; then
    AC_DEFINE(HAVE_DOS_PATHS, 1
              [Define this if your system requires backslashes or drive specs 
in pathnames.])
  fi


Is this really the best way to handle this situation?  Seems a little
dodgy to me...

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