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Jam reverses slash direction on Windows
See: http://maillist.perforce.com/pipermail/jamming/2002-February/001567.html
My copy of Jam has the following behavior on Windows:
C:\>jam -f-
x = foo/bar ;
ECHO $(x:G=) ;
^Z
foo\bar
^---------------slash direction reversed!
See: http://maillist.perforce.com/pipermail/jamming/2002-February/001567.html
My copy of Jam has the following behavior on Windows:
C:\>jam -f-
x = foo/bar ;
ECHO $(x:G=) ;
^Z
foo\bar
^---------------slash direction reversed!
- Status
- Open
- Project
- jam
- Severity
- C
- Reported By
- David Abrahams
- Reported Date
- Modified By
- Shawn Hladky
- Modified Date
- Dev Notes
- (seiwald)
Whenever you apply a "file modifier" (PGRDBSM) in a variable
expansion, jam assumes it is a file name, tearing it apart and
putting it back together. When tearing apart file names on NT,
it accepts both \ and /, but when building them it only uses \.
The :G (grist) modifier is considered a file modifier.
Someday jam will have its own (UNIX) syntax for all file paths,
having them turned to local paths only at binding. Someday.