Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix build for mingw32 on windows ($@ in macro)

[Stefan Weil]

Jamie Lokier schrieb:
> Stefan Weil wrote:
>> Jamie Lokier schrieb:
>>> Stefan Weil wrote:
>>>
>>>> Make using mingw32 on windows does not preserve $@ in macros
>>>> when they are modified using this pattern:
>>>> target: macro += something
>>>>
>>> Is it not using GNU Make, or is it some ancient version?
>>> ("make --version" shows the version, if it's GNU Make).
>>>
>>> -- Jamie
>> GNU make 3.79.1 (2004)
>
> 3.79.1 is ancient, the GNU version being released in June 2000 :-)
>
> The behaviour of
>
> target: macro += something
>
> appears to be fixed in GNU make 3.80, which was released in October 2002.
> (I've just tested 3.79.1 and 3.80 from GNU's ftp site).
>
> Is there not an update for mingw32 for a more recent make?
>
> -- Jamie

Of course it's ancient, but from the timestamp (if it was correct)
I'd estimate that it takes 3 to 4 years to get a GNU release to windows :-)

MSYS make 3.81-2 is available (and there is also a MinGW make, a
make using MSVCRT). The MinGW update tool does not
update MSYS make automatically (at least in my installation),
and I rarely compile using mingw32 on windows (cross compilation
from linux works better). So keeping MinGW/MSYS up-to-date
is a little difficult.

-- Stefan