Re: Setting MAKE_MODE breaks make.exe

2008-03-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:33:02PM -0500, Francois Colbert wrote: >Well... setting MAKE_MODE to "win32" also makes the process stop with >the same error message, without even reading the Makefile. It seems >that only "unix" is accepted, and there's already a "--unix" parameter >that does the same

Re: Setting MAKE_MODE breaks make.exe

2008-03-05 Thread Francois Colbert
Well... setting MAKE_MODE to "win32" also makes the process stop with the same error message, without even reading the Makefile. It seems that only "unix" is accepted, and there's already a "--unix" parameter that does the same thing. I'm talking about an already existing Makefile, here. O

Re: Setting MAKE_MODE breaks make.exe

2008-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:17:51PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Francois Colbert wrote: > >> I think that a simple warning message (or no message at all?) and >> *normal* continuation of the process (ie: no abort) would be sufficient >> since "make" doesn't seem to be using this variable anymore.

Re: Setting MAKE_MODE breaks make.exe

2008-03-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Francois Colbert wrote: > I think that a simple warning message (or no message at all?) and > *normal* continuation of the process (ie: no abort) would be sufficient > since "make" doesn't seem to be using this variable anymore. Its only I think the idea is that if you have a Makefile that expec

Setting MAKE_MODE breaks make.exe

2008-03-03 Thread Francois Colbert
Hi. When "make" (3.81) is invoked in a shell where the MAKE_MODE environment variable is set, an error message is printed, saying that the support for MAKE_MODE has been dropped, and the process *stops*. In my opinion, not supporting MAKE_MODE is fine, but aborting is not. This is very uncon