Should GNU make 3.81 be required?

[Jonathan Gibbons]

It sounds like handling drive letters would be a good sanity test for make.

-- Jon



Brad Wetmore wrote:
>
> 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
>>