Re: Detecting the need for DOS pathnames

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Paul Smith wrote:
> 
> 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...
[snip]

Have you looked at m4/dos.m4 from coreutils 5.0? This does a compile-time test
for Windows or DOS definitions from the compiler (e.g.: _WIN32, __MSDOS__).
Maybe you could adapt it to check for OS/2 too?

Bye, Rich =]

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