Re: [RFA] New substitute-path commands

Joel Brobecker
2006-07-11T22:25:32Z

> 2. Should the end of the rule be anchored to end of string or
> directory separator?

I was thinking about this, and almost ready to implement it. But
then I thought about the Windows case. On cygwin, the directory
separator is '/', but then some tools probably use '\' and we
accept it. On MinGW, the standard directory separator is '\', but
GCC at least uses forward slashes as far as I know.

So, in implementation terms, anchoring against the directory
separator is tricky on Windows. I think we should accept both.
I'm just not sure what is the best way of implementing this.
Looks like we might not be able to avoid an #ifdef macro.

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Joel