Cygwin 1.1.4: unexpected "make" behaviour

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Dec 20 16:44:00 GMT 2000


If this is really the problem you should send your fix to the make maintainer.
It's obviously not a cygwin bug.

cgf

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:00:41PM -0800, Sammartino, Ryan wrote:
>
>This seems to do the trick.  This patch is against the make-3.79.1-2 source
>tarball:
>
>
>*** default.c.orig      Wed Dec 20 15:54:08 2000
>--- default.c   Wed Dec 20 15:55:52 2000
>***************
>*** 388,394 ****
>  # ifdef __MSDOS__
>      "CXX", "gpp",     /* g++ is an invalid name on MSDOS */
>  # else
>!     "CXX", "gcc",
>  # endif /* __MSDOS__ */
>  #else
>      "CC", "cc",
>--- 388,395 ----
>  # ifdef __MSDOS__
>      "CXX", "gpp",     /* g++ is an invalid name on MSDOS */
>  # else
>!       /* "CXX", "gcc", */
>!     "CXX", "g++",     /* RTS: make manual says "g++" should be the default
>*/
>  # endif /* __MSDOS__ */
>  #else
>      "CC", "cc",
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Earnie Boyd [ mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com ]
>Sent: December 20, 2000 2:46 PM
>To: Sammartino, Ryan
>Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
>Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.1.4: unexpected "make" behaviour
>
>
>--- "Sammartino, Ryan" <rsammartino@ea.com> wrote:
>> Heh.
>> 
>> Yes, I figured that out :)
>> 
>> But it would be nice if Cygwin make followed the defaults
>> as laid out in the make manual 
>> ( http://www.gnu.org/manual/make/html_chapter/make_10.html#IDX774 )
>> 
>
>Good point.  Care to provide a package patch or release?  List, is there a
>make
>package maintainer assigned?  If not, Ryan, would you care to become that?
>
>Cheers,
>
>=====
>Earnie Boyd
> mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
>
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