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RE: make script not working with Cygwin 1.5.25-14 (with Perl)


Nose wrote on 02 September 2008 13:14:

> In my previous cygwin version there indeed was 
> a make nut in my new installation there wasn't.

  Yes, 'make' (and other developer tools) aren't part of the default cygwin
installation - you need to select them explicitly.

> Now it's time to discover the reason's that the makefile works with
> cygwin's make and not with unixtools make.

  Because cygwin's make understands POSIX paths and unixtools' make doesn't?

>From http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/:

"  Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this
context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft
C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin
tools."

  No emulation -> Only DOS-style paths available there.

  :-)  This is why cygwin is so great, of course!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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