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authorsimonpj <unknown>1999-08-27 11:48:10 +0000
committersimonpj <unknown>1999-08-27 11:48:10 +0000
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[project @ 1999-08-27 11:48:08 by simonpj]
When deciding if a module is a "library" module, allow C:/ C:\ as prefixes of the path, not just / We need to improve this hack, but this fix makes things work on Windoze.
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@@ -632,6 +632,9 @@ multi-directory application, use <em>relative</em> path names in your
Use absolute path names only for directories containing slowly-changing
library modules.
+A path is considered ``absolute'' if it starts with ``@/@'', or
+``@A:/@'', or ``@A:\@'' (or ``@B:/@'', ``@B:\@'' etc).
+
Patrick Sansom had a workshop paper about how all this is done (though
the details have changed quite a bit). Ask
him (email: <htmlurl name="sansom@@dcs.gla.ac.uk"