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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:43:30AM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote:
>At 04:31 AM 8/17/2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:34:36 -0400
>>> From: "William A. Hoffman" <billlist AT nycap DOT rr DOT com>
>>> 
>>> Actually no, MinGW make is not working for what used to work with cygwin
>>> make.   It has a nasty habit of changing cl's command line arguments
>>> like /GZ into c:/msys/1.0/GZ.
>>
>>I think this is the MSYS Make, not what I call ``the MinGW Make''.
>>The latter is produced by building the original Make 3.81 sources with
>>the MinGW compiler via the build_w32.bat batch file included in the
>>source tarball.  If you look in the official Make sources, you will
>>not find any code that changes /GZ into something else; in fact, the
>>native Windows build doesn't change anything in the command-line
>>options of the command being invoked, IIRC.
>
>You are correct.  MSYS Make is the one that has that problem.
>My earlier test must have found the wrong make.  However, the mingw
>make when correctly in the PATH does not like the makefiles that
>have forward / and does not launch processes very well if sh.exe is
>in your path.   I can only get it to work from a dos shell with dos
>style paths.   CMake can generate dos path makefiles for MinGW Make,
>but I usually run from a cygwin shell and create makefiles with unix
>style forward /, and this seems not to work.  This may be the wrong
>list for this, but since MinGW was recommend as an alternative in
>the announcement for make 3.81 it should be fair game to point out
>the problems with that suggestion.
>
>I have not dug into the problem yet, but:
>
>Here is a run with the MinGW make, from a cygwin shell:
>
>$ ./make
>[ 25%] Built target testc2
>[ 50%] Built target testc1
>Linking
>C
>executable
>conly.exe
>cl : Command line warning D4024 : unrecognized source file type 'CMakeFiles/conl
>y.dir/conly.obj CMakeFiles/conly.dir/foo.obj ', object file assumed
>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'CMakeFiles/conly.dir/conly.obj CMa
>keFiles/conly.dir/foo.obj'
>make.exe[2]: *** [conly.exe] Error 2
>make.exe[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/conly.dir/all] Error 2
>c:\hoffman\My Builds\CMakeDev\Tests\COnly\b\make.exe: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
>Here is a run in the same directory with the 3.81 make that I patched:
>(also works fine for cygwin 3.80 make)
>
>Hoffman AT VOGON ~/My Builds/CMakeDev/Tests/COnly/b
>$ /cygdrive/c/Downloads/make-3.81-build/make
>[ 25%] Built target testc2
>[ 50%] Built target testc1
>Linking C executable conly.exe
>[100%] Built target conly

I've already mentioned once that this was the wrong mailing list for this.
Why do you seem to need everything repeated at you?

If you, or anyone, is having problems with MinGW's make it would behoove
you to discuss the problems in a mailing list which was populated by people
who are familiar with it.

cgf

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