On 11/2/2012 21:42, Ray Donnelly wrote:
> IMHO, it's MSYS that should've called it's make program msys-make.exe
> and mingw32-make.exe should've been called make.exe, seeing as it's
> the strictly native one here, but I understand that I'm bucking the
> trend. When this make.exe is supplied with Necessitas for Windows,
> I've renamed it to ma-make.exe specifically to avoid more confusion.
> 

No, what? and break all the instructions and scripts that are meant to
run on MSYS?

GNU make is traditionally unix, it is the "native" mingw one that is the
odd one out. GNU make is expected to run with all that unix constructs
that mingw32-make can't understand.

> I intend my make.exe to (one day) be able to also work from MSYS (by
> hand parsing fstab), cmd.exe and whatever else I can throw it at.
> 

Sure, when it's compatible one day.


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