GNU Make 3.79.1 Bug-Report?

[Gerd Igelmann]

Dear Madams and Sirs,

for more then 5 years we used the GNU Make version 3.76.1 at PCs with OS
Win98.
Now we changed to GNU Make version 3.79.1 which comes with the mingw32
Compiler.
Since this time we are not able to run the old makefiles of already existimg
projects.

The result for the following lines on the same PC with OS Win98 is
completely different.

all:
        cd test
        dir > content.txt
        cd ..

Make 3.76.1 does the change of directory as expected, make 3.79.1 does not
Is this problem of the PC-Binary already known and is there a later version
with a bugfix availiable?

Thanks for your help in advance and kind regards

Gerd Igelmann
Germany


Revision Info:

GNU Make version 3.76.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Report bugs to <address@hidden>.

GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for mingw32
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Report bugs to <address@hidden>.