make-3.81-4

Mon Dec 28 21:06:00 GMT 2009

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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