X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:04:23 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 Message-ID: <20060815230423.GC6297@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> <17633.5335.965102.80534@segfault.lan> <44E1FF26.6040707@netacquire.com> <17634.17135.395022.903332@segfault.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 05:53:17PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >John W. Eaton wrote: >>On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: >>>Clearly, developers make a huge contribution, >>>nobody is denying this, but to suggest that *only* developers contribute >>>and everybody else should therefore just shut up >> >>I never said everyone else should "just shut up". My point was that >>if you aren't contributing in some way, then you shouldn't expect your >>complaining to carry much weight. The way to get things done is to do >>the work, not just complain and hope that people do something for you. > >...or offer money. That carries more weight than complaining. :-) > >However that doesn't work in all cases. This I am reasonably confident >is one of them. But as a general rule... No, it would work in this case, but I hesitate to name my price since it will surely make me sound even more evil. 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/