problem with make-3.81

[Rob Walker]

Or, you could unpack a patched up version of Cygwin's GNU make-3.81, 
available here:

http://sites.rwalker.com/cygwin

-Rob

Dave Korn wrote:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
>   
>> ycollet@ wrote:
>>     
>>>> I think Dave wants you to get the mingw-make from the mingw project site
>>>>         
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Yes, I fill that. But that's a little bit complicated: to benefit from a
>>> "pure" windows binary, you can compile a mingw binary using cygwin tools.
>>> But you still need to download the make tool from the mingw website.
>>>       
>> In *certain* cases -- if you're lucky -- you can use the cygwin make,
>> but you have to turn off automatic dependency tracking in your project.
>> For projects that use automake, you can do this using
>> --disable-dependency-tracking. But there are significant drawbacks to
>> doing this. And if it breaks your project, you get to keep all the
>> pieces (e.g. doing this is not supported by us, or anyone else).
>>     
>
>   Or, you can hack the makefile or put wrapper scripts around the compiler to
> post-process the generated dependencies using cygpath (details left as
> exercise for reader).
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
>
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