Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:52:33 -0400 To: cygwin Subject: Re: New Cygwin: "commands commence before first target" Message-ID: <20000525145233.A3340@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <392D3053.6711.46A446@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from bkline@rksystems.com on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 02:30:43PM -0400 On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 02:30:43PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote: >On Thu, 25 May 2000, Tom Weichmann wrote: >> > On Thu, 25 May 2000, Karr, David wrote: >> > >> > > I would have guessed that doing "setup make" would get the latest >> > > version. It apparently doesn't. It only gets version 3.77. Is >> > > version 3.79 kosher for installing with cygwin? >> > >> > I don't know what the official answer is, but 3.79 won't build under >> > win32 (at least for the NMakefile method) without a little hacking of >> > the sources. Specifically: >> > [snip] >> >> Make 3.79 built just fine for me OOTB. > >Well, perhaps ... > > 1. you got yours out of a different box (I got mine from ftp.gnu.org) > > or > > 2. you used a different method for building (I followed the > instructions in README.W32) > > or > > 3. your environment is configured differently than mine. > >I'm assuming you read my original message and are aware than I'm >building using nmake with NMakefile (as described in README.W32) instead >of make under bash. If you are building make using Microsoft's Visual C++ tools you are not building a cygwin version of make. That means that this discussion is pretty much off-topic for this mailing list. I would appreciate it if you would take your difficulties to some other newsgroup or mailing list since they are not appropriate here. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com