On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 11:07 -0700, David Highley wrote: > The latest version of Fedora 13 does not have a 3.82 verion of make so > the only way to test would be to build from source which I can do. It > may take me a while since were pretty busy right now.
Building make from source is pretty trivial: only one binary (plus docs). You can just run it out of the build directory if you want, no need to install. But no huge rush: I'm underwater at work for at least the next few weeks as well. > Do we know if anyone is working on a newer update for Cygwin? I don't; maybe a message to make-...@gnu.org would help? I really don't follow this at all (I know, lucky, right? :-)) but my vague impression is that people are moving away from cygwin and towards mingw. > Paul has it really only been 15 years. I though our discussions went > back to 1995 or so when you were working a Bay Networks. Well, I've been using GNU make heavily since 1988 or 1989 so it's likely we did have those discussions. But I took over maintainership from Roland in 1996 (as best as I recall). _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
