make-3.81-4

[Rob Walker]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:16:59PM -0800, Rob Walker wrote:
>   
>> It's been almost a year and a half since I made a request to have 
>> Cygwin's GNU make updated with the upstream patches for colons in 
>> dependencies and VPATH directives:
>>
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-07/msg00058.html
>>
>> I'd like to re-request that this updated package be accepted by the make 
>> package maintainer.
>>
>> The source and binary packages (assembled according to the instructions 
>> at http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html) have been updated for Cygwin 1.7.1, 
>> and are available here:
>>
>> http://sites.rwalker.com/cygwin/
>>     
>
> Thanks for posting your original link so that I could easily find my
> response:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-07/msg00059.html
>
> This hasn't changed.  I have absolutely no interest in keeping a patched
> version of make around for this nonissue.  In fact, it is my fervent
> hope that by not patching make people are actually learning how to do
> things the right way in a Cygwin environment.
>
> When there is a new version of make released, I'll release a new
> version for cygwin.
>
> Please don't keep clamoring for this.  I've made my intentions clear.
>
>   
Ok, can't blame a guy for trying.  Maintaining my own mirror with this 
package tweak is tedious (especially recently).

To re-offer my counter opinion:

Using Cygwin GNU make in a cross-target/cross-platform build environment 
isn't "wrong" (it's possibly even inferrable goal of the RedHat Cygwin 
product).  For folks using Cygwin this way it's not a "nonissue".

-Rob


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