From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26386 invoked by alias); 8 Sep 2006 16:37:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 26375 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Sep 2006 16:37:05 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from public.kitware.com (HELO public.kitware.com) (66.194.253.19) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:37:00 +0000 Received: from VOGON.nycap.rr.com (vogon.kitwarein.com [192.168.1.53]) by public.kitware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6954E7BD0 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2006 12:36:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.2.20060908123639.0a304c10@pop.nycap.rr.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:37:00 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "William A. Hoffman" Subject: Re: Need Volunteers to test patch for gnu make In-Reply-To: <20060905203443.GD7281@brasko.net> References: <6.2.3.4.2.20060905152356.0ad8d050@pop.biz.rr.com> <20060905203443.GD7281@brasko.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2006-09/txt/msg00130.txt.bz2 At 04:34 PM 9/5/2006, Bob Rossi wrote: >On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:36:02PM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote: >> I have tested it and it works for me. William Sheehan >> has also tested it. Can a few more folks give the patch a try? >> >> Here is the link to the most recent patch: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/make-w32@gnu.org/msg01157.html >> >> Just get the source for make-3.81 and apply the above patch. >> You can get make from here: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/make/ >> You will need to rerun autoconf/automake after the patch, >> as the patch does not include the configure script. Once >> you build it, run make check to verify that the build is working. >> Also, please try with any makefiles that you have and need to work >> with windows paths. > >This works for me. Thanks for the great work! >Our system used to build with 3.80 from cygwin, it did not build with 3.81 >from cygwin, and now works with native build of make with the patch >above on cygwin. Thanks Bob. OK, so that is three people that have tested this patch. Please try the patch if you use make. DOS paths will be on by DEFAULT and there will be no way to turn it off. We want to make sure this does not break any POSIX based makefiles. -Bill -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/