Re: Parallel Jobs Bug

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 05:06:50PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
>On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 13:27 -0800, Bill Harding wrote:
>> In regards to Paul's earlier questions about the version and
>> distribution of my make, it is a Cygwin version of make running on
>> Windows XP.  Specifically, if I access my make's help it says "Program
>> built for i686-pc-cygwin".  The version of make is GNU Make 3.80.  
>
>The Cygwin version of GNU make 3.80 (and below) have some special
>customizations that aren't part of vanilla GNU make 3.80.  I suggest you
>continue to work with the folks on the Cygwin mailing list to try to
>resolve this issue.  I do find it odd that the errors seemed to suggest
>you were running cmd.exe, if you're using a Cygwin environment.
>However, the folks on the Cygwin lists will be better able to advise
>you.

We don't generally support older versions of released programs so moving to
3.81 is advised.

cgf