change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:51:01 +0100
> 
> > The thought of adding a cygwin-specific function to make and then making
> > sure that it exists as a noop in any other version of make seems a little
> > pushy to me.
> 
>   Well, it could always just not exist, and people can hide it in wrapper
> funcs or ifdefs.

ifdefs are a clear sign of non-portability.  I think we should try to
avoid that as much as possible.

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