Should GNU make 3.81 be required?

[Brad Wetmore]

Tim wrote:

 > 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.

A quick reminder, the gnumake 3.81 as part of a normal cygwin install 
does *NOT* support the drive letters, and thus can't be used.

 > - that would be confusing.

What do you think: is that confusing?!?  ;)

 > I presume the devtools version will be updated to 3.81 ?

For the Sun-internal folks, /java/devtools/win32/bin/gnumake.exe is 
3.78.1 and *DOES NOT* work on cygwin.  The build did work with MKS as of 
July, but maybe not with the new changes you're proposing.

Kelly O'Hair wrote:

 > I have a 3.81 for cygwin at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/make.exe

This binary sums to the same value as the one on cmake.


Brad "Spent way too much time on this in July" Wetmore



David Holmes - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> Hi Kelly,
> 
> Kelly O'Hair said the following on 09/16/09 03:24:
>> So I'm trying to work out some jdk7 Makefile performance improvements
>> and everything is working out fine on Linux and OpenSolaris...
>> Then I discover that the GNU make features I'm using are seriously
>> broken in GNU make 3.80 and I need 3.81 to get around it. :^(
> 
> On Solaris 10 /usr/sfw/bin/gmake (which IIRC comes from the Solaris 
> companion CD) is 3.80.
> 
> /java/devtools/sparc/bin/gnumake is 3.78.1
> 
> I presume the devtools version will be updated to 3.81 ?
> 
> Updating /usr/sfw/bin/gmake seems less clear ...
> 
> David
>