Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:22:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907051422.KAA07877@indy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: kxs@bigfoot.com CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-reply-to: <19990705112433.5508.rocketmail@attach1.rocketmail.com> (message from Keith Starsmeare on Mon, 5 Jul 1999 04:24:33 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: Why is MAKE_MODE not UNIX by default? > Cygwin gives us a UNIX like environment, but to use UNIX like make > files we have to create an environment variable. Why not have make > default to UNIX and users can specify win32 if they want it. Remember that cygwin was originally created to host our development tools in a win32 environment for our customers, who did *not* have a unix environment to go with it. Many of them need MAKE_MODE to not be set to unix. If someone can come up with a reliable way of auto-detecting when it should be set to unix, go ahead and submit a patch. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com