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Re: Fixproto fix
- To: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras at softhome dot net>
- Subject: Re: Fixproto fix
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 22:35:30 -0600
- cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, DJGPP Workers <djgpp-workers at delorie dot com>
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <39130EA2.D42C42CC@softhome.net>you write:
> Currently fixproto script does not understand DOS style absolute
> paths with drive letters. This leads to paths like d:/gcc/obj/c:/djgpp/incl
> ude
> which are incorrect and cause infinite recursion while fixproto'ing
> limits.h.
>
> This patch rewrites absolute path checks to make them like in another
> script, ylwrap.
>
> (Andris, is it useful in anyway for your 2.95.2 port?)
>
> 2000-05-05 Laurynas Biveinis <lauras@softhome.net>
>
> * fixproto: Recognize DOS paths with drive letters as absolute paths.
This can't be correct since it will mess up on systems which allow directory
names like c; (ie every unix system I'm aware of).
You'll have to find some way to conditionalize this behavior for
systems with dos-like naming conventions.
jeff