It's always annoyed me that the Windows error messages generated by make are so much different (and, arguably, less understandable) than the ones it generates on other platforms.
For example on GNU/Linux: ! make: foobar: No such file or directory ! make: *** [work/misc/general4.mk.7;3: all] Error 127 But on Windows: ! process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, foobar, ...) failed. ! make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified. ! make: *** [work/misc/general4.mk.7;3: all] Error 2 Aside from the error code, is there a good reason to show this special process_begin() message on Windows instead of just using the same error reporting facilities that make uses on other platforms? If we did I imagine it would look something like this: ! make: foobar: The system cannot find the file specified. ! make: *** [work/misc/general4.mk.7;3: all] Error 2 I'd really like to make this change if acceptable to the Windows folks out there. Cheers! _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
