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Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:52:59PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, William A. Hoffman wrote:
>>At 02:20 PM 8/16/2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>>On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>Not only that, but the upstream maintainer actually suggested a couple
>>>of avenues of investigation to make the patch smaller by using
>>>functionality already built into the upstream make. All that remains
>>>is for someone to actually "do the work" (tm).
>>
>>Paul suggested adding the define HAVE_DOS_PATHS to the cygwin build of
>>gnu make:
>>
>>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00882.html
>>
>>Christopher countered with,
>>
>>"There is no advantage using cygwin if you want to use a Makefile which
>>contains MS-DOS paths. Using MinGW makes perfect sense in that case.
>>Despite having suggested this repeatedly, it seems some users are still
>>not clear on this concept."
>
>You've already mentioned a situation where MinGW does not do the right
>thing (albeit on the wrong list).
...and we don't really know if it is a true "does not do the right
thing" since we aren't experts in the software in question.
cgf
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