Re: GNU make help on patsubst

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Li, Jerry" <address@hidden> writes:

  lj> Is there any way to replace / with \ in D:/myWorkingDir/src/test
  lj> on Windows NT?

  lj> I have tried $(patsubst /,\, D:/myWorkingDir/src/test), but it does not
  lj> work.

You have to hide the backslash from make.  Put it into a variable; that
in itself is tricky:

  BSLASH := \\#

then you can use:

  $(patsubst /,$(BSLASH),D:/myWorkingDir/src/test)

Note that you will not, in general, be able to use the backslash value
as either a target or a prerequisite, but you can translate them when
necessary in the command scripts.  It shouldn't _usually_ be necessary,
as most Windows tools will handle forward slashes equally well.  It's
only command.com based tools that won't, IIRC.

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