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RE: Problem with make
- To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: RE: Problem with make
- From: "Brown, Kim" <Kim.Brown@wl.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 07:56:52 -0400
My version of GNU make is 3.75 (supplied with b20.1 I think). I did not
know there was a 3.77 out there. Looks like I need to upgrade and see if my
problems with makefiles go away.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: N8TM@aol.com [mailto:N8TM@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 2:12 AM
> To: Kim.Brown@wl.com; Dave.Blob@gs.com; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: Problem with make
>
>
> In a message dated 6/9/99 9:45:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> Kim.Brown@wl.com
> writes:
>
> > I have found GNU make to be buggy with some makefiles,
> especially those
> > generated by PERL install packages. I just use nmake from
> microsoft
> without
> > problems. Anyone else have problems with GNU make?
>
> Do you mean gnu make as in b20.1? It has serious problems
> with recursive
> makefiles (e.g. egcs configure and build). For my purposes,
> replacing it
> with make-3.77 has been satisfactory,
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