Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/16/10:59:39
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:29:17AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >This particular problem must've been fixed by some other patch.
> >Nonetheless, now that the make maintainer is aware that there is a bug,
> >he'll likely look into releasing the updated version of make at some
> >point. Since he's a volunteer (like the rest of us), he'll do it on his
> >own schedule (the bug is relatively minor, and there's a workaround, so
> >this probably won't happen soon).
>
> Actually, I think I've said on more than one occasion that I'm waiting
> for an official upstream make release before I make the next cygwin
> release of make.
Ok, so you looked into it ("at some point") and decided to wait until an
upstream release (which "probably won't happen soon"). You gotta admit, I
was close... :-)
Seriously, though -- since your policy is to only package upstream
releases of make, maybe stating this in future announcements would quell
some of the requests for updates...
Igor
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