gcc build problem - make vpath

[mwoehlke]

Michael Eager wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 03 October 2006 03:10, Michael Eager wrote:
>>> It looks like make is not recognizing VPATH correctly.
>>> I'm using make-3.80-1.
>>
>> This is unlikely.  Gcc is known to build on cygwin.  I do it all
>> the time and it has no problem for me.  Perhaps something else is
>> underlying.
> 
> I've also built GCC on Cygwin a number of times without problem
> until I updated Cygwin, which installed make-3.81.  The changes in
> make-3.81 cause problems with another makefile which uses DOS paths
> containing variables (%name), so I uninstalled make-3.81 and installed
> make-3.80 binaries from mozilla.org.
> 
> I reinstalled make-3.81.  The problem is gone.
> 
> I don't have the option of re-writing the makefiles which use
> DOS paths to make them compatible with make-3.81.
> 
> Is there a working version of make-3.80 available?  Is there
> any option which will make make-3.81 treat DOS variables the
> same as in make-3.80?

Oh, look, I *found* the link this time. :-)
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-09/msg00315.html
(Thanks, CGF! Alas, I have no link to where he provided the link :-).)

-- 
Matthew
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