Re: GNU make 4.2.90 release candidate available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:41:33 -0400
> 
> On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 12:29 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >    This seems to be due to a subtle bug/misfeature in the GNU linker:
> >    it doesn't grok backslashes in file names in response files.  I
> >    needed to introduce a special variable to give each linker its
> >    preferred flavor of slashes.
> 
> Can we just use forward slashes everywhere?  Or will Visual Studio not
> work with them?

I don't know whether VS will support that, and have no way of finding
out.  I assumed it didn't, but I have no basis for that.

> If they work that would be my preference, rather than adding another
> variable.

Agreed.  If you can test that, that'd be great.

> The rest of the changes look fine to me.

OK, will push them soon.

Do you want to keep the UMASK macro, or should we just call 'umask'
under the HAVE_UMASK condition?