X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:04:00 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Need Volunteers to test patch for gnu make Message-ID: <20060908220400.GA9505@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <6 DOT 2 DOT 3 DOT 4 DOT 2 DOT 20060905152356 DOT 0ad8d050 AT pop DOT biz DOT rr DOT com> <20060905203443 DOT GD7281 AT brasko DOT net> <6 DOT 2 DOT 3 DOT 4 DOT 2 DOT 20060908123639 DOT 0a304c10 AT pop DOT nycap DOT rr DOT com> <6 DOT 2 DOT 3 DOT 4 DOT 2 DOT 20060908153235 DOT 0a33fb20 AT pop DOT nycap DOT rr DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060908153235.0a33fb20@pop.nycap.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , 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 Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 03:34:58PM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote: >At 12:38 PM 9/8/2006, William A. Hoffman wrote: >>Thanks Bob. OK, so that is three people that have tested this patch. >>Please try the patch if you use make. DOS paths will be on by DEFAULT >>and there will be no way to turn it off. We want to make sure this >>does not break any POSIX based makefiles. > >Since folks seem to be adverse to building from source, I have made the >patched make.exe available here: > >http://www.cmake.org/files/cygwin/make.exe > >Please try it, and report any problems on this list. To be clear: the only way this will *ever* show up in a Cygwin make release is if I am satisfied that all of the people who complained about this issue will not still be complaining after I make a new release. So anyone who previously expressed reservations about the current make behavior should should try the binary that William has graciously made available and report back here. And, no, I'm not going to produce a test release of make with this change. Sending email is about the limit of the effort that I'm willing to go to for this issue. cgf -- 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/