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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:33:02 -0500
From: Francois Colbert <fc AT dnasoft DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Setting MAKE_MODE breaks make.exe
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Well... setting MAKE_MODE to "win32" also makes the process stop with 
the same error message, without even reading the Makefile.  It seems 
that only "unix" is accepted, and there's already a "--unix" parameter 
that does the same thing.

I'm talking about an already existing Makefile, here.  One that expects 
MAKE_MODE to be set to something else than "unix", for its own purpose, 
and doesn't care about windows-style paths.

The --unix flag is a much better option, in my opinion, because it makes 
"make" depend only on the way it's invoked, instead of relying on 
environment variables that can vary greatly from one environment to 
another.  Reacting to MAKE_MODE just makes Cygwin's "make" more 
different and less useful when porting a development environment to 
Windows/Cygwin.

fc

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