> From: Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:44:53 -0400 > > On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > I'm not sure I should look into each and every failure, given that the > > test suit is clearly not meant to run on Windows. Not unless you have > > some magic way of making all these problems go away with some setup... > > Very likely it's because I have Git for Windows installed on my system.
So do I, it just isn't on the Windows PATH. > I'm sure that make is finding the sh.exe that comes with that and > that's why most of these things work in my tests. I'll try adding Git's bin directory to PATH and see if that works. > Question: why do we remove the .exe at the end of the command name in > main.c? That seems odd to me, at first glance. Is that something > common? I don't remember why we are doing this, the code has been there since 2005. Maybe so that the "Entering" and "Leaving" messages looked better? seeing "make.exe[2]:" there is quite ugly. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
