%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jg> One problem I have frequently come across is having multiple jg> incompatible versions of make installed.
jg> This would be solved if the path was visible. Could the path to jg> the binary being run be added to the --help or --version output jg> please? jg> Alternatively if I submit a patch to add this will it be accepted? I'm not sure how you imagine this would work, or what use it would be. If you run --version don't you already know that you have different versions? As for the other, make doesn't know its own path. For example, make doesn't have the path used during the configure encoded anywhere in its executable: you can copy the make executable anywhere and it will still work fine. It has no external files etc. that it needs to find. The only thing it could do would be to emulate the way the system searches the PATH environment variable and find the first matching binary. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
