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Re: Use built-in make functions for finding absolute paths. (issue 97510
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dak |
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Re: Use built-in make functions for finding absolute paths. (issue 97510043) |
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Sun, 18 May 2014 12:33:25 +0000 |
On 2014/05/18 12:15:56, hanwenn wrote:
On 2014/05/17 15:54:25, dak wrote:
> On 2014/05/17 13:21:19, hanwenn wrote:
> > david, can you have a look?
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> Well, I checked that the function used (realpath) has been present
in GNU make
> since something like 2006. So we should be basically fine, but
Windows path
> names are always a dare anyway and I don't have a Windows system
available
> myself.
>
> So I don't see much of an option rather than letting this cook in
the next
> unstable version release and see whether GUB makes it to the
finishing line.
Does GUB actually run on Windows? I wasn't aware of that.
We could workaround by interposing a function that does something
different on
windows.
Well, regarding GUB my experience is pretty much hearsay. After
thinking about it, you are probably right that it never runs on the
target system itself. I mean, that's sort of its point.
https://codereview.appspot.com/97510043/