From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: N8TM@aol.com To: Kim.Brown@wl.com, Dave.Blob@gs.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Problem with make Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 23:12:00 -0000 Message-id: <4cdfffd9.2490b116@aol.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-06/msg00194.html 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, at least when running NT or W2K. We have had hints here that a modified make-3.77 will be in the next major version of cygwin. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: N8TM@aol.com To: Kim.Brown@wl.com, Dave.Blob@gs.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Problem with make Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:10:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4cdfffd9.2490b116@aol.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-06n/msg00194.html Message-ID: <19990630221000.gOLXGn5sWRPGHDlrJqI75V---SqKQQJMTHUscxUOZm8@z> 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, at least when running NT or W2K. We have had hints here that a modified make-3.77 will be in the next major version of cygwin. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com