change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:47:50PM -0700, Douglas Goodall wrote:
>>On Aug 16 15:40, mwoehlke wrote:
>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>I'm wondering why nobody complains that Linux doesn't understand drive
>>>>letters.
>>>
>>>Well, the obvious answer is because Linux doesn't *have* drive letters.
>>;-)
>>
>>That's *the* major drawback of Linux.  When will Linux have drive
>>letters finally?  As long as Linux doesn't have drive letters, it's
>>totally unusable and the Linux people should not be surprised that
>>nobody will ever use Linux!!!1!
>
>What are you talking about.  Either you like Unix or you don't.  To the
>best of my knowledge, FreeBSD doesn't have drive letters either.  Its
>not the Unix way.  Your position astounds me ;-)

I'm pretty sure that HP/UX understands drive letters, though.

I have 30 years of experience in the computer industry so I am obviously
right about this.

cgf