Re: GNUmake compared with Watcom make

[Earnie Boyd]

Johan Bezem wrote:
> Not necessarily, but the GNUmake source code tends to use unix constructs
> that can only be "translated" into something similar under W32. This tends
> to be slow. I suggest checking out 'Cygwin' (http://www.cygwin.com), a
> POSIX-layer for use on W32, that comes with it's own (ported) set of tools,
> including a 'make' 3.79.1 natively compiled by the GNU c compiler. Works
> perfectly for me!

And for completeness, if you're not interested in the POSIX-layer 
runtime for building your packages but need a POSIX system that'll 
execute a typical configure script check out, 
http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml.  It contains the same version of make 
as Cygwin does.

Earnie.