make 3.81-1 problems with DOS-paths

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:38:33PM -0400, Charli Li wrote:
>Eric Blake just had to cough out the following stream of bytes from
>the specified email client, on 9/27/2006 9:29 PM:
>>According to Knut Schwichtenberg on 9/27/2006 11:31 AM:
>>>How is it possible that ./configure does not recognize the Cygwin
>>>environment properly for a Windows-PC?  Is the missing define only a
>>>derived problem that is based on an error in the toolchain before?
>>
>>All right! I was totally expecting this week's holy war to be on my
>>decision to make bash run faster on binary mounts at the expense of
>>those poor \r\n script users, but this guy set out to prove me wrong.
>>Perhaps he didn't get the memo that make is last week's gripe?
>
>Heh, heh, maybe the patch proposed *should* be considered official.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-w32/2006-09/msg00034.html

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