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Re: problem with make-3.81


Charles Wilson wrote:
> ycollet@ wrote:
>>> I think Dave wants you to get the mingw-make from the mingw project site
>> :-)
>>
>> Yes, I fill that. But that's a little bit complicated: to benefit from a
>> "pure" windows binary, you can compile a mingw binary using cygwin tools.
>> But you still need to download the make tool from the mingw website.
> 
> In *certain* cases -- if you're lucky -- you can use the cygwin make,
> but you have to turn off automatic dependency tracking in your project.
> For projects that use automake, you can do this using
> --disable-dependency-tracking. But there are significant drawbacks to
> doing this. And if it breaks your project, you get to keep all the
> pieces (e.g. doing this is not supported by us, or anyone else).

  Or, you can hack the makefile or put wrapper scripts around the compiler to
post-process the generated dependencies using cygpath (details left as
exercise for reader).

    cheers,
      DaveK

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