Re: Built make-3.80rc1 on MinGW/MSYS - brief

[Soren A]

Update report.

*I* <address@hidden> wrote in 
news:address@hidden:

> I want to let people who might care know that I've built 'make' 3.80rc1
> from patched source on MinGW in msys.

I've got a url to mention ...

   http://home.att.net/~perlspinr/build_platforms/mingw-make/

I've prepared the document above in order to collect together my .diff, 
build-configuration file changes, and so on. I might make reference to that 
sitelet in the future, since it utilizes syntax-highlighted HTML (pretty 
colors!) to display some of the build-configuration files I worked on.

I should mention that what I've done with this effort so far is now 
regarded as minimally valuable over at the MinGW List, because the main GNU 
`make' tool being distributed and used over there is the MSYS port, which 
is based on Cygwin's port. I probably should have started with that port 
instead of the older one (a "purely Win32" port done mostly by Mumit Khan a 
few years ago). I was in ignorance of these important distinctions and 
plunged in a bit prematurely, perhaps.

Mostly I created the sitelet in order to keep my results minimally 
organized and accessible to myself.

  Best,
   Soren A