Re: [Mingw-users] Possible problem with mingw32-make-3.81-20080326.tar.gz

[Greg Chicares <gchicares@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-04-12 22:20Z, Bob wrote:
> Bob <robert.h.fletcher@...> writes:
>> 
>> I have been corresponding with Eli Zaretskii on a possible problem with the
>> latest make binaries. See
> 
> Apparently, the url did not work.

Here's the URL I think you want:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-w32/2008-04/msg00003.html
[Eli wrote:]
| I downloaded mingw32-make-3.81-20080326.tar.gz from the MinGW site,
| and I can confirm that the mingw32-make.exe binary from there does not
| find sh.exe on my system as well.  What's even more strange, I
| compared the sources in mingw32-make-3.81-20080326-src.tar.gz with
| what I have, and they are identical!  And the binary I build from my
| sources does find the shell.

That does seem anomalous. However:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-w32/2008-04/msg00000.html
[you wrote:]
| Eventually, I figured out that I needed to add 'C:\msys\1.0\bin' to my PATH.
| That is, with mingw32-make (from mingw32-make-3.81-2.tar.gz) and
| C:\msys\1.0\bin in PATH,

Instead of doing that, why don't you just use MSYS's own 'make'?

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