Re: GNU make 3.81beta4 released

[Markus Mauhart]

"J. Grant" <address@hidden> wrote ...
>
> Hi,
>
> > It may be used, but it is not needed:
> > AFAICS the only effect of prepare_w32.bat, once started out of the
> > distribution (not from plain CVS), is running the following single
> > command:
> >
> >     if not exist config.h copy config.h.W32 config.h
> >
> >
> > A) User with prepare_w32.bat:
> > 1) user reads in README.W32 a (to be added) instruction like:
> >    please execute the following command:
> >        prepare_w32.bat
>
> You are right that is a manual step at present. I've incorporated that
> as a pre-build step to negate its necessity. I'll post as a patch to
> the list shortly.

ok, but if readme.w32 doesnt follow my suggestion ...

  1) execute
       if not exist config.h copy config.h.W32 config.h
  2) edit config.h

... then all w32 - build procedures and readme.w32 must be consistent
w.r.t. whether changes in config.h or in config.h.W32 will be used by
each build procedure:
If readme.w32 says "edit config.h.W32", then each build procedure must
unconditionally copy config.h.W32 over config.h.
If readme.w32 says "edit config.h", then each build procedure must
execute "if not exist config.h copy config.h.W32 config.h".


Best Regards,
Markus.