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Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

At 05:31 PM 8/14/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:15:50PM -0400, Harig, Mark wrote:
>> 
>That isn't going to help with programs like cl which take MS-DOS command
>line arguments, nor, is my oft-suggested but consistently ignored perl
>script for converting a makefile from MS-DOS to cygwin paths.

True, and as an example of a high profile project that was hit by
this, I found FireFox, has not quite figured out what to do about the change.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites
Note: make 3.80 (not 3.81!) -- dependency analyzer for software builds (Devel category) 

Firefix is built with cl, and cygwin make.   


-Bill


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