change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

mwoehlke mwoehlke@tibco.com
Tue Aug 15 00:09:00 GMT 2006


William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 04:16 PM 8/14/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I'm not 100% clear on what you're saying but if cmake distributed with
>> Cygwin is producing makefiles with MS-DOS SYNTAX then, actually it
>> should either be fixed to not do that or it should be pulled from the
>> distribution.  I wasn't aware of this limitation.
> 
> The cmake distributed with cygwin produces cygwin makefiles and only
> cygwin makefiles.  It is unaffected by the change in make from 3.80 to 
> 3.81.   There is no such limitation, please don't remove cmake from cygwin.
> Since that cmake links to the cygwin runtime it know about /cydrive/c and
> uses it.
> 
> The change affects the microsoft build of cmake.  That build is available
> on a separate download from www.cmake.org.  It has 
> an option to generate "Unix Makefiles".  In the past,
> you could use this mode to create Makefiles that would drive Microsoft's 
> cl with a cygwin make.   This no longer works.   I am trying to figure
> out if there is change I can make to the windows build of cmake, that
> will cause it to generate makefiles that will work with both make 3.80, and
> 3.81 from cygwin.

Before this is carried much further... does it work with the mingw 'make'?

-- 
Matthew
"We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad... You must be, or you wouldn't 
have come here." -- The Cheshire Cat


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