[m-dev.] Very confusing error message for absolute pathnames (fwd)

[Ondrej Bojar]

Julien Fischer wrote:
>> Personally, I'm fine with disallowing full paths for --make targets. 
>> It did not work until now, it can safely be forbidden from now on.
> 
> The fact that your "error message" is an assertion failure inside the 
> compiler suggests it was never intended to support them.  (If you do 

Yep.

So as soon as I get bored, I'll add the explicit check against full 
pathnames.

O.

> want to spread your source tree over multiple directories you can always 
> use source file mapping.)
> 
> Julien.
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