Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: GNU make 3.79
References: <412568E0.007DDF4A.00@dbogw2-e1.esb.eur.deuba.com>
In-Reply-To: jorg.schaible@db.com's message of "Mon, 15 May 2000 22:54:49 +0000"
From: Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com>
Organization: Just me at home
Date: 23 May 2000 21:48:18 -0400
Message-ID: <87wvkk7m71.fsf@lucy.mtth1.on.wave.home.com>
Lines: 24
User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.2 (Melpomene)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

I may be a bit late with jumping in here, but isn't installing
"replacements" in /usr/local/ and having /usr/local/bin before
/usr/bin in you PATH the usual method?

jorg.schaible@db.com wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> sadly the contained version 3.77 of GNU make in Cygwin has a nasty
> bug including other make files. Version 3.79 available at
> www.gnu.org will build OOTB if the drive is mounted in textmode
> (otherwise the configure script fails ?!?) and the #define for the
> Cygwin version in config.h.W32 was set (as described in the README).
> 
> Unfortunately calling setup will overwrite the newer version again
> (no, no, I won't blame it). How is the process for a replacement in
> the Cygwin distribution to get the new GNU make version ?
> 
> Regards,
> Jörg

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.


--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com