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Subject: Re: Setting MAKE_MODE breaks make.exe
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Francois Colbert wrote:

> I think that a simple warning message (or no message at all?) and
> *normal* continuation of the process (ie: no abort) would be sufficient
> since "make" doesn't seem to be using this variable anymore.  Its only

I think the idea is that if you have a Makefile that expects to set
MAKE_MODE to "win32" and use c:/foo/bar-style paths, it will fail
catastrophically anyway, so there's no point in continuing.

Brian

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