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Am 10.08.2010, 19:54 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor:

> I wanted to let everyone know that I'm aware of the fact that make-3.82
> has been released.  However, given the number of reported problems in
> the make bugs mailing list, I don't plan on releasing a new version of
> GNU make until the dust has settled.  That means no new version of make
> for at least a month.
>
> Also, given the ability to use more UNIX-like filenames in Cygwin 1.7.x,
> I'm contemplating not doing what I'd previously mentioned - using new
> changes in GNU make to allow MS-DOS file names like "c:\foo" in
> makefiles.  I'll have to investigate just how much the Windows-isms in
> GNU make's code impact Cygwin make before I make a final determination.
> I may just decide to reenable the --ms-dos option as it used to be in
> the old days.  Or, if that's too much work, I might just turn off
> special-case handling of c:\blah entirely - just like it is in
> make-3.81.

How about pointing people to mingw-make? I've been using that to build  
ntemacs for quite a while...

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Matthias Andree

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