Re: GNU make 3.81beta3 released

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

  >> The -W is a MSYS specific hack to bash builtin pwd to display the windows
  >> path and will only work with build environment of mingw32.

  ez> If there's no other solution, the script should use the -W switch
  ez> only with pwd that supports it.  We need to come up with a way to
  ez> test for that support at the beginning of the test suite.

That's easy enough: something like:

    chomp($pwd = `pwd -W 2>/dev/null`);
    $pwd or chomp($pwd = `pwd`);

(will 2>/dev/null work in Windows?)


Anyway, as Earnie says we won't worry about this stuff for 3.81.

I'm very pleased with this beta; a few nits here and there (and lots of
warnings etc. for the MSC stuff) but it seems to be working well overall
and I'm getting good testing on the ports--thanks everyone!

Maybe we'll do an rc release next week and then...?!?!

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