X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 01:13:03 +0100
Message-ID: <009a01c6bfff$934e8480$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; 	charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
In-Reply-To: <17632.65094.528377.623813@segfault.lan>
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On 14 August 2006 23:51, John W. Eaton wrote:

> A recap, as I understand it (please correct me if I'm wrong):

  [  snip perfectly accurate summary as far as I can see  ]

> This whole problem could be solved if the people who are complaining
> about the Cygwin version of GNU Make directed their efforts toward
> getting a patch accepted in the GNU Make sources that handles MS-DOS
> style filenames when GNU Make is compiled for Cygwin.  Then there
> would be no need to maintain a separate patch just for the Cygwin
> package of GNU Make.
> 
> Or am I missing something?

  The increasingly obvious fact that the aforementioned people have no
intention of actually *doing* anything, and seem to want to do nothing except
complain and tell others what they ought to be doing, rather than actually
getting something done?  Or even just rolling back their installation to
3.80-1?  (*Nobody* has yet said "I needed to upgrade to the new version
because I ran into a bug in 3.80 that was fixed in 3.81")

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


--
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/