Re: make 3.81 MinGW port and testsuite working with MSYS

[Earnie Boyd]

<quote who="Eli Zaretskii">
>> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:19:45 +0000
>> From: "J. Grant" <address@hidden>
>> CC: address@hidden,  address@hidden
>>
>> For instance, the output from the MSYS port of make:
>>
>> $ make -fmissing.mak
>> make: missing.mak: No such file or directory
>> make: *** No rule to make target `missing.mak'.  Stop.
>>
>> In my view the MinGW port should also have the same output, without any
>> OS specific program executable file type suffix.
>
> Why, because MSYS did that?  I'd say, let's ask MSYS people to leave
> .exe as we do.
>

Again, the MSYS version of make has no relevance to this issue.  The MSYS
version of make is similar to the Cygwin version of make and is emulating
what UNIX would do.  Cygwin and MSYS treat the command foo similar to a
symlink to foo.exe.

Earnie

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