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On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:17:51PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Francois Colbert wrote:
>
>> I think that a simple warning message (or no message at all?) and
>> *normal* continuation of the process (ie: no abort) would be sufficient
>> since "make" doesn't seem to be using this variable anymore.  Its only
>
>I think the idea is that if you have a Makefile that expects to set
>MAKE_MODE to "win32" and use c:/foo/bar-style paths, it will fail
>catastrophically anyway, so there's no point in continuing.

That's correct.  This behavior is not going to change.

cgf

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