FW: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

[Dave Korn]

On 16 August 2006 00:04, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:53:17PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>> John W. Eaton wrote:
>>> On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote:
>>>> Clearly, developers make a huge contribution,
>>>> nobody is denying this, but to suggest that *only* developers contribute
>>>> and everybody else should therefore just shut up
>>> 
>>> I never said everyone else should "just shut up".  My point was that
>>> if you aren't contributing in some way, then you shouldn't expect your
>>> complaining to carry much weight.  The way to get things done is to do
>>> the work, not just complain and hope that people do something for you.
>> 
>> ...or offer money. That carries more weight than complaining. :-)
>> 
>> However that doesn't work in all cases. This I am reasonably confident
>> is one of them. But as a general rule...
> 
> No, it would work in this case, but I hesitate to name my price since
> it will surely make me sound even more evil.
> 
> cgf


  And that would be a bad thing because ....   ?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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