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

[Earnie Boyd <earnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Bob <robert.h.fletcher@xxxxxxxx>:

> Greg Chicares <gchicares@...> writes:
>
> ...
>
>> Instead of doing that, why don't you just use MSYS's own 'make'?
>
> I had thought that the mingw32 make was the "preferred" binary to 
> use; but, of
> course, this may be incorrect. However, I noticed that the latest version in
>
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=803423
>
> includes some recent fixes which I assumed were not in my older MSYS version.
>

MSYS provides its own version of make so that it works within the shell 
environment.  Unless you following the instructions for building an 
MSYS application [1] then you should pick from the MSYS Technology 
Preview[2] the new versions of applications.

> Incidentally, following Eli Zaretskii's suggestion, I downloaded the source,
> mingw32-make-3.81-20080326-src.tar.gz, and built the executable myself. This
> does not have the problem that the mingw32-make-3.81-20080326.tar.gz 
> binary has.
>

Eli only knows make.  He really doesn't know the ins and outs of how 
MinGW uses it.  Do note that you will have limited success with the 
native version of make within the MSYS shell.  In particular you will 
be SOL if you want to kill the processes.  CTRL-C isn't given to the 
native sub-processes.  You also stand a chance of locking the entire PC 
because the MSYS shell looses it ability to control the processes since 
a spawned process from a native application isn't controlled by MSYS.

Earnie
[1] http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/BuildMSYSApplication
[2] 
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=24963&release_id=46827

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