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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:21:03 -0400
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On 28-Jul-2006, Chris Taylor wrote:

| So even if the DOS #ifdef was enabled, we'd be back at the point of 
| having patches to attempt to fix this behaviour.
| Unless there was some way of having two versions of make - one with this 
| behaviour and one without, controlled by /etc/alternatives perhaps?

Two versions for this seemingly small feature seems a bit much when a
command-line switch could do the job.

jwe

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