X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:02:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 Message-ID: <20060815210221.GB4783@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <17632.65094.528377.623813@segfault.lan> <009a01c6bfff$934e8480$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <6.2.0.14.2.20060814213115.093f2a40@pop.nycap.rr.com> <20060815031725.GB18949@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <6.2.3.4.2.20060815083334.07ab5470@pop.nycap.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060815083334.07ab5470@pop.nycap.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 08:55:04AM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote: >At 11:17 PM 8/14/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Or, the short answer to the question is: Yes. The GNU make mailing list >>has already been contacted and the GNU make maintainer has already made >>a suggestion. > >I have searched the thread "Re: 3.81 and windows paths" on >http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2006-07/msg00023.htmland. I >was unable to find the suggestion. Could you please point me to the >suggestion. The suggestion seems to be use mingw make and not cygwin >make. However, I get the feeling that you are hinting at some other >suggestion. If you have a link into the list where the suggestion is, >I would appreciate it. Thanks. I do not have a link. I was "speaking" from memory. Just to clarify, the whole point of your interest is to avoid telling people that they should use the MinGW version of make with makefiles that are intended for use MS-DOS-like applications, right? If that is the case, then it really seems like the path of least effort is just to instruct people to use MinGW. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/