Re: gnumake 3.80

[Earnie Boyd]

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.