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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:50:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: make problem -- does not terminate on error
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:29:20AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, aek AT pumpkininc DOT com wrote:
> >> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >> > Check your environment for MAKEFLAGS (or some such), and see if it
> >> > contains "-k".
> >>
> >> Only environment setting is MAKE_MODE=unix. Would that be it?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Andrew
> >
> >I doubt it.  The normal unix make uses no such variable.  This one is
> >probably from mingw (which I know little about, so I won't speculate
> >further).
>
> Cygwin make uses this variable.  I doubt that mingw does.  Setting it
> to MAKE_MODE=unix is a noop.  That's the default.
>
> cgf

Oops, did I just call cygwin 'not a normal unix'? :,(

Note to make maintainer: the variable MAKE_MODE was mentioned neither on
the make man page, nor in the make info file.  Perhaps an update is in
order?
	Igor
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