Re: [Mingw-msys] problem with latest snapshot

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Andrew Begel wrote:
> 
> I need to pass in a list of paths to jikes in my makefile:
> 
> JavaClassPath   :=      /c/jdk1.4.0/jre/lib/rt.jar:../../lib
> foo.class: foo.java
>         jikes -classpath $(JavaClassPath) $?
> 
> In MSYS 1.0.8, the list of paths is not being translated to windows
> paths for jikes. It complains that /c/jdk1.4.0/jre/lib/rt.jar can't be
> found.
> 
> I tried setting a shell variable first and then reading it, since you
> put that in this version, right?
> 
> foo.class: foo.java
>         foo=$(JavaClassPath); jikes -classpath $$foo $?
> 
> But $$foo is empty (as seen by foo=blah; echo $$foo test case), which is
> different behavior than what I get on a Linux bash shell.
> 
> Any idea what's going on?
> 

Not yet, but thanks for the test case.

Earnie.