I wrote: >> I am currently using Cygwin GNU make v3.80 on Windows due to the >> later Cygwin builds not supporting MS-DOS drive letters or paths: >> >> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#gmake
Kelly O'Hair wrote: > I have a 3.81 for cygwin at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/make.exe > > See if that works for you. I restarted my most recent Windows XP/Visual Studio 2008 build using this make.exe, which reports "GNU Make 3.81". The sanity check passed and the build is working away. Brad wrote: > From that same page, I've been using 3.81 from: > > http://www.cmake.org/files/cygwin/make.exe > > (labeled as: "you can download this www.cmake.org make.exe which will > not have a libintl2.dll dependency.") > > for my cygwin installation. It supports the MS-DOS drive letters. Excellent! We may be in better shape than I thought, unless there are other make.exe downloads that report 3.81 yet are broken for our purposes - that would be confusing. Tim
