Re: Two bugs with 3.80? VPATH and usage message

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Richard Bland" <address@hidden> writes:

  rb> Here are two findings that I think are bugs.  These relate to Make
  rb> 3.79.1 and 3.80, running under cygwin and Windows XP Professional.
  rb> In both cases 3.79 does what I expected and 3.80 doesn't.

  rb> 2) The last two lines of the usage message under 3.80 are broken.
  rb> Under 3.79.1 they look right, that is
  rb>   --unix                      Run in UNIX mode (use sh.exe subshell).
  rb>   --win32                     Run in Win32 mode (use Win32 subshell).

These lines are not present in the FSF version of GNU make.  If you're
seeing them it means you're using the Cygwin version of GNU make, which
has been modified by Cygwin.

That version of GNU make is not really supported by this mailing list;
please contact the Cygwin development team for problems with that
version.

I've received no other reports of VPATH not working in GNU make 3.80,
but if you can reproduce this with the vanilla FSF GNU make, please
contact the address@hidden mailing list and see what they have to say
about it (I can't support the Windows port, since I don't own any
Windows systems).

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