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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:22:46 -0400 (EDT)
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: kxs AT bigfoot DOT com
CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT 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.

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