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Re: FAQ about make


On Wednesday 18 Oct 00, Chris Faylor writes:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:50:52PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote:
> >Currently, /etc/profile contains 'export MAKE_MODE=unix'.  Is this the
> >only sense in which the behaviour has changed with the latest net
> >release?  (Hmm, I just tried it, and it seems the default is already
> >unix mode, so is MAKE_MODE=unix unnecessary now?)
> 
> Yes.  I swapped the default when I started releasing make.
> 
> Red Hat still wants the default to be MAKE_MODE=win32, though, so if
> you get a Cygwin release from us, the default is reversed.

Wait, I'm confused now.  Red Hat will ship with the environment
variable MAKE_MODE=win32 set?  Or will ship a version of make where
--win32 behavior is the default?  (Or neither, because the default
behavior of make is actually handled in cygwin1.dll?)

Thanks,
David


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