Make 4.4 on Win10 behaving oddly

2023-07-23 Thread Gary Turner
Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask - I've been reading this list for years, and it was an easy option :) I've been getting (copying) updated make.exe files from various installations as I set up new machines over the years. I usually run make manually from a command prompt. I've been doi

Re: How to fail on a find with grep using make?

2009-02-24 Thread Gary Turner
That worked perfectly. Thanks very much. - Original Message - From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: "Gary Turner" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:52 AM Subject: Re: How to fail on a find with grep using make? From: "Gary Turner" Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009

How to fail on a find with grep using make?

2009-02-23 Thread Gary Turner
Hi, Apologies (and please let me know) if this is an inappropriate question for this list. I'm using grep to compile files created by a gui editor. Occasionally a 'bad thing' gets into the files, and I'd like the compile to fail if that 'bad thing' is found in the file. By default grep 'fails'

Re: Make is looking for a disk in drive D:?

2008-06-05 Thread Gary Turner
Original Message - From: "Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gary Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 12:01 AM Subject: Re: Make is looking for a disk in drive D:? From: "Gary Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:

Make is looking for a disk in drive D:?

2008-05-08 Thread Gary Turner
This is possibly a bit of an oddball one. I'm running Make 3.81 i686-pc-mingw32 on a XP SP2 machine. I use make for all sorts of wierd and wonderful tasks - usually with no problems whatsoever. However - every so often make just pops up a window reporting that there is no disk in drive d: (my C

Make on XP - shell selection?

2007-10-19 Thread Gary Turner
I've used make on windows for quite a while - I use it for all sorts of non-compilation tasks, and my makefiles tend to occasionally use dos-type commands - e.g if exist ... It all worked perfectly until I installed a compiler that put a sh shell on my path. Since then all my makefiles are brok