Re: GNU make 4.2.90 release candidate available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:36:23 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > 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.

That doesn't help, it makes things worse: the script complained it
cannot run gnumake.exe, for some reason, and eventually it started
more than 1000 perl processes and almost killed my machine.

So I guess I will have to continue running tests that matter by hand
and manually examining the results, as I did all these previous
years...

Too bad.

Btw, why is features/archives disabled for MS-Windows?  If Make was
built with GCC, it means 'ar' is available and can be used.  If I
allow that, I get 7/12 tests passed in that category.