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
