make 3.79/djgpp

[Gisle Vanem]

This snippet from one of my makefiles:

.PHONY: chk_as
AS = as.exe
path_find = $(wildcard $(addsuffix /$(1),$(subst ;, ,$(PATH))))

ifeq ($(call path_find,$(AS)),)
chk_as:
       @echo \"$(AS)\" not found on path. Edit Makefile manually.
endif

works fine when $LFN=n. I.e. set before make is run.
e:\djgpp\bin\as.exe is the only as.exe in my $PATH.

But with no $LFN set (and "+LFN=y" in djgpp.env), my 'path_find' function 
fails to find as.exe. Why could that be? My $PATH is nothing special; no 
paths with spaces and only short 8-3 names.

> make -v
GNU Make version 3.79.2a1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for i386-pc-msdosdjgpp

Running in a Win-XP DOS-box.

--gv