change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:27:01AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>1)  Use setup.exe to install the source package to 3.80-1.
>2)  Compile and install it with a --prefix setting that places it earlier in
>your $PATH (e.g. /usr/local instead of /usr).
>3)  (Optional) Use setup.exe to uninstall the cygwin make package altogether.
>
>
>  Trivial.  Elementary.  Easy.  Simple.  Take you ten minutes.  Twenty if you
>aren't used to compiling source packages and have to try it a couple of times.

And, the above recipe uses the *actual* power of "free software", too.
Free software isn't about a community of users who provide "valuable feedback"
to developers.  It is about being given the source code so that you have the
"freedom" to do whatever you want with the source code.

cgf

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