Re: GNU make 4.2.90 release candidate available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:44:53 -0400
> 
> On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I'm not sure I should look into each and every failure, given that the
> > test suit is clearly not meant to run on Windows.  Not unless you have
> > some magic way of making all these problems go away with some setup...
> 
> Very likely it's because I have Git for Windows installed on my system.

So do I, it just isn't on the Windows PATH.

> I'm sure that make is finding the sh.exe that comes with that and
> that's why most of these things work in my tests.

I'll try adding Git's bin directory to PATH and see if that works.

> Question: why do we remove the .exe at the end of the command name in
> main.c?  That seems odd to me, at first glance.  Is that something
> common?

I don't remember why we are doing this, the code has been there since
2005.  Maybe so that the "Entering" and "Leaving" messages looked
better? seeing "make.exe[2]:" there is quite ugly.