%% Matt England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: me> Wow. Well, this explains things. I was wondering my 'make' is so me> awry on mingw. It follows the general rule I've found in me> cross-platform development is that if the developers don't use a me> platform, you'll find more bugs on said platform.
me> Just to make sure: there's no developers/maintainers on the me> [email protected] list who actively or routinely use 'make' on me> mingw/msys? Not quite what I said. There are at least a few people who read make-w32 and use GNU make on mingw/msys, and test and contribute patches and fixes. You can check the archives to find some names. You might also have luck on the mingw/msys mailing lists. There are very few (currently only two) people who have checkin privileges to the GNU make source tree. Neither of those people use VMS/Windows/DOS/Amiga/OS2/etc. Everyone else contributes patches for other ports; I examine them for obvious issues before they're checked in, but I know little about the other platforms so other than really obvious errors, portability issues, or formatting issues, I pretty much just apply what people send me. So there are definitely people who try to make sure these ports work. But there are no GNU make maintainers that use or test GNU make on Windows (or DOS, or VMS, or any of the other non-POSIX platforms that GNU make supports). Unfortunately, I really don't have any one designated maintainer for each port. I have a few "usual suspects" that I talk to for most of the ports. For Windows issues of any type, I typically send things to the make-w32 list and hope someone responds. Eli is one of the best there, but he only does DOS and native Windows, not mingw/msys etc., as far as I know. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
