Re: Problems building gnu make on Winnt 4.0

[James Schrumpf]

"Tauno Voipio" <address@hidden> wrote in
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>"James Schrumpf" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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>> First off, I am not a c programmer.  This exercise has been mandated
>> by changes in my production environment, and is supposed to be a
>> no-brainer. It has turned into a nightmare.
>>
>> I'm trying to build the gnu make-3.79.1 on my WinNT 4.0 server machine
>with
>> sp 6a.  I've installed MSVC++ 6.0 and the MKS Toolkit 7.01 into
>directories
>> with no whitespace in their names.
>>
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>One solution might be to get Cygwin from RedHat website
>(www.redhat.com). It is an U**X interface layer running on top of Win32.
>It also includes the usual U**X tools, so you may not need to compile
>the make at all. Besides, there is a decent C compiler (GCC) which does
>compile the target you like. 
>
>Tauno Voipio
>tauno voipio @ iki fi
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The MKS Toolkit is also a Unix interface for win32, and now that I look I 
see there's a make.exe in there.  I don't know why I'm compiling the gnu 
make if there's already one in there.  

I'll try using the MKS verson and see what happens.

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