JTK wrote:

> Ok, I'm trying to get this beast built on Windows.  So far things are going
> pretty well (yet the night is still so very, very young).  But what's the deal
> with the "Windows Build Tools" package?:
>
> "Netscape has internally modified versions of gmake, shmsdos, and uname that we
> use to get around some problems we were having keeping in sync with the Unix
> version of gmake"
>
> Um, ok, since Cygwin (which is also required and rightly so) has fully
> functional GNU make, ash and bash, and uname, why is this stuff still necessary?
> Or is it leftover crud that never got removed?

the big difference is the Moz version of uname returns a different OS string
that the make files use

dave


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