ext Paul D. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:21 AM
To: J. Grant
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Path to binary in --help or --version
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I'm still not very clear on why you want the path to make.
It seems to
me that checking the version value should be able to
Hello,
I have different win32 builds, which I do not think are sufficiently
different in their --help. I'm not sure if they should do this either.
I thought something appended to the help output such as below would make
it clear:
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Path to binary: /usr/local/bin/make
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> -Original Message-
> From: ext Paul D. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:21 AM
> To: J. Grant
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Path to binary in --help or --version
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> I'm still not very clear on why you want the pat
%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'm not sure how you imagine this would work, or what use it would
>> be. If you run --version don't you already know that you have
>> different versions?
jg> For instance, cygwin make ver 3.80 and msys/mingw make ver 3.80,
jg> both installe
Hi,
I'm not sure how you imagine this would work, or what use it would be.
If you run --version don't you already know that you have different
versions?
For instance, cygwin make ver 3.80 and msys/mingw make ver 3.80, both
installed, and used by different build processes. However, there are
pro
%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jg> One problem I have frequently come across is having multiple
jg> incompatible versions of make installed.
jg> This would be solved if the path was visible. Could the path to
jg> the binary being run be added to the --help or --version output
