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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:02:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: FAQ about make
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--- Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:07:23AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:14:57PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote:
> >> >Wait, I'm confused now.  Red Hat will ship with the environment
> >> >variable MAKE_MODE=win32 set?  Or will ship a version of make where
> >> >--win32 behavior is the default?
> >> 
> >> The latter.
> >
> >Would it help if we voiced complaint somewhere within Redhat?  What
> >reasoning is behind this?
> 
> The reasoning is that we have customers who are used to MAKE_MODE=win32
> and rely on it.
> 

I was afraid of that.

> One of our biggest customers uses make, gcc, etc.  only as a native
> windows solution.  They don't care about mount tables or cygwin at all.
> They want to be able to say:
> 
> d:\foo\bar.exe :
> 	gcc -o d:\foo\bar.exe c:\bob\sproing.c
> 
> and not have to worry about specifying MAKE_MODE=win32.
> 

Uhm, why not use MinGW or at least the Windows native make which builds OOB
with MinGW I believe?

> Complaining to Red Hat wouldn't help with this.  There is too much
> entrenched use of the win32 stuff with the old Cygnus customers.  I
> believe that eCos might even use it in their makefiles, in fact.
> 

Oh, well it was worth asking.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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