Subject: Re: GNU make 3.79
From: Dmitry Yaitskov <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: 23 May 2000 21:48:18 -0400

I may be a bit late with jumping in here, but isn't installing
"replacements" in /usr/local/ and having /usr/local/bin before
/usr/bin in you PATH the usual method?

[email-masked] wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> sadly the contained version 3.77 of GNU make in Cygwin has a nasty
> bug including other make files. Version 3.79 available at
> www.gnu.org will build OOTB if the drive is mounted in textmode
> (otherwise the configure script fails ?!?) and the #define for the
> Cygwin version in config.h.W32 was set (as described in the README).
> 
> Unfortunately calling setup will overwrite the newer version again
> (no, no, I won't blame it). How is the process for a replacement in
> the Cygwin distribution to get the new GNU make version ?
> 
> Regards,
> JЖrg

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.

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