On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:11:19PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: >On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 13:36 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: >> IMO the objections to requiring MSYS/Cygwin on Windows made no sense >> in this discussion. "Make" is inherently a POSIX command line tool. >> Anybody using it on Windows needs a POSIX environment already anyway. > >That is definitely not true. The Windows ports of make are quite useful >in native Windows environments, with no hint of POSIX (command line). >They can use the Windows shell instead of the UNIX shell, etc. > >Certainly you're not going to be able to run any POSIX-based makefile on >a Windows system without a full suite of common tools, but that doesn't >mean it makes no sense in other situations. > >Eli can speak more directly to this, though: I've never actually used >make in these situations. Cheers!
I'm not Eli but as someone who is intimately familiar with Cygwin, I have to say that having a windows-only version of GNU make makes a lot of sense to me. Microsoft's version of NMAKE isn't very useful, IMO, so if you just want a way to build programs and don't care about having a full UNIX-like system, then a standalone make is the way to go and GNU make is one of the best makes around. cgf _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
