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RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:36:27 +0100
- Subject: RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
On 14 August 2006 19:29, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> 3.80 does this:
>
> make -f test.make
> make: *** No rule to make target `C:/foo', needed by `foo'. Stop.
>
>
> 3.81 does this:
> make -f test.make
> test.make:1: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.
>
> test.make contains:
> foo: C:/foo
>
> So, in 3.80 windows style driver letter : path worked with make.
> In 3.81, it no longer does. Is this expected, can the old
> way be brought back?
Search the archives, and read the release announcement for the new make
version.
Every single day for the past month, we have had at least seventy-four[*]
identical duplicate redundant reports of this from people who haven't bothered
to check if it was already known.
cheers,
DaveK
[*] - exaggeration. But not by much.
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