Re: gnumake 3.80

[Ross Woody]

I wound up using gnumake 3.79.1, which I was able to compile. Thank you!

Earnie Boyd wrote:

> So your current problem is in trying to apply the patch?  Do you have 
> a utility named ``patch''?  Perhaps you need to look at 
> http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml?
>
> Earnie.
>
> Ross Woody wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm having difficulties in building gnumake.exe on a Windows 2000 P4 
> > SP3. Paul Smith pointed me at this email address, and I hope that you 
> > can help.
> >
> > I'm doing this as a pre-req for an Oracle Apps install.
> >
> > I have Visual Studio 6, SP5
> > MKS Toolkit 7.5
> > I've down loaded the TAR and GUNZIP tools, and have successfully 
> > uncompressed and untarred the files.
> >
> > I found the bug 1687 which mentioned that hash.c is never compiled, 
> > and hash.obj doesn't "participate". hash.obj wasn't in the folder.
> >
> > I downloaded the patch, but I'm not sure what to do with the text. 
> > Where does it go? Which file(s) should be modified?
> >
> > I tried using the NMakefile and it fails.
> >
> > I'm trying to use the build_W32.bat file to create the executable. It 
> > fails.

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Ross Woody