change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug 16 10:14, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> So, there seem to be three options on the table:
> 
> - pay redhat to put the patch back

The Cygwin net distro is not a Red Hat thingy.  It's an entirely
volunteer driven project.  If you want a package being "fixed" for you,
it's up to the current maintainer, not Red Hat.  As far as Red Hat is
concerned, you can purchase Red Hat's supported Cygwin distribution
which comes with user support.

> - have the patch made part of the upstream gnu make

That's the best solutiion of all.  The whole "problem" is that the
current Cygwin make maintainer has no fun to work on this issue.
Everybody else is free to put a bit of time and sweat into this and get
this for free firther on.  I'm still wondering why people don't go this
way instead of discussing this problem, which is none, IMHO, to death.

> The point I am trying to make is that the one option that is off the table,
> is taking over the maintenance of the make package in cygwin and doing
> the patch yourself.

I'm honestly confused.  Why would it better to have another Cygwin
distro maintainer for a package instead of getting the patches included
upstream?  This makes no sense at all.  If my head wouldn't be fixed to
my neck, it would actually fall down from all the shaking now.


Corinna

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