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Re: FAQ about make
- To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: FAQ about make
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:02:36 -0700 (PDT)
--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:07:23AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >--- Chris Faylor <cgf@redhat.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@yahoo.com
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