Should GNU make 3.81 be required?

[Tim Bell]

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