From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81?
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060725042611.GC2880@efn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060724185526.GA21744@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:55:26PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:42:40PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:12:17AM -0700, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote:
> >>Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>>On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:03:43PM -0700, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote:
> >>>>There was also some difference in newline handling which required
> >>>>another set of sed changes, arghh!
> >>>
> >>>Well with detailed bug reports like this and the previous "make
> >>>provides an error on one of my complex makefiles" we're surely well on
> >>>the road towards perfection.
> >>
> >>This sarcastic response to one sentence out of a much longer post
> >>quoted in isolation suggests that a clarification is in order. Neither
> >>of my previous posts, not the one about the "threadlist_ix -1" error
> >>and not the one I wrote specifically in response to a claim that the
> >>recent changes to make were "not an inconvenience", were written with
> >>any expectations for a fix.
> >
> >Well, you *could* expect a fix if you provided enough details.
> >
> >It is pretty frustrating to see content-free bug reports like "there was
> >also some difference in newline handling" or "My big/complicated
> >makefile SEGVs". Whether you intended these as bug reports or not, they
> >are still reports of problems and no package maintainer wants to see
> >reported problems sent to thousand of people whether they were just
> s
> >intended to blow off steam or not.
A fine example of a non-content-free post (though it did take me a couple
of looks to see the content.)
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2006-07-24 18:23 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-07-24 18:37 ` Dave Korn
2006-07-24 20:50 ` mwoehlke
2006-07-25 3:48 ` Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
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2006-07-25 4:26 ` Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [this message]
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