make --win32 incorrectly handles PATH

DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com
Thu Jul 20 18:41:00 GMT 2000


> Then more recently, I read the GPL and decided that we would be obliged to
> distribute the source with the binaries even if we didn't change the source.

True, or at least offer to provide them later (see GPL sec 3b), but
it's still your responsibility.

> Then we didn't want to diddle the source because we didn't want to take on
> the additional responsibility of maintaining our own version of make --
> that's not the business we're in. So again, we were hoping we might get the
> fixes from cygnus.

Option - diddle the sources and submit the changes back to the make
maintainers (which aren't cygnus, btw).  Then they become official and
you don't have to maintain your own version any more.

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