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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:03:52 -0500
To: charlie AT hand-family DOT org, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: Paul Kinnucan <paulk AT mathworks DOT com>
Subject: Re: Make docs and faqs
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At 11:22 AM 2/28/00 -0800, Charlie Hand wrote:
>I've been told by several people that I'm really stupid for not being 
>able to find documentation for the make which comes with bash on 
>the web sites, and I'll stipulate to that.
>
>Could someone provide this idiot with an actual URL to make 
>documentation either on the cygwin site, or the redhat site, or 
>where ever it is?
>
>Also, I'll stipulate that the several hundred mail list archive 
>messages I've read without finding help were not enough, and that 
>I'm a lazy SOB.
>

From the Cygnus faq  (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/faq/):

Why is make behaving badly?

Starting with the beta 19 release, make defaults to a win32 mode in which
backslashes in filenames are permitted and cmd.exe/command.com is used as
the sub-shell. In this mode, escape characters aren't allowed among other
restrictions. For this reason, you must set the environment variable
MAKE_MODE to UNIX to run make on ordinary Unix Makefiles. Here is the full
scoop: 
MAKE_MODE selects between native Win32 make mode (the default) and a Unix
mode where it behaves like a Unix make. The Unix mode does allow specifying
Win32-style paths but only containing forward slashes as the path
separator. The path list separator character is a colon in Unix mode. 
Win32 mode expects path separators to be either / or \. Thus no Unix-style
\s as escape are allowed. Win32 mode also uses cmd.exe/command.com as the
subshell which means "copy" and "del" (and other shell builtins) will work.
The path list separator character is semi-colon in Win32 mode. People who
want an nmake-like make might want to use this mode but no one should
expect Unix Makefiles to compile in this mode. That is why the default b19
install sets MAKE_MODE to UNIX. 

- Paul

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