Should GNU make 3.81 be required?

[Brad Wetmore]

>> So do I continue on, and assume a new requirement to upgrade to GNU make
>> 3.81 because of these changes (on all platforms), or do I go back to the
>> drawing board and try and make the changes work with 3.80, or even
>> 3.78.1 ???
> 
> If we can find a Windows/Cygwin GNU make v3.81 or better that works, I'd
> vote for updating the requirement to 3.81 for all.
> 
> 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

 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.

Brad