Hi/2. Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:57:56 +0900 >> From: KO Myung-Hun <kom...@gmail.com> >> CC: bug-make@gnu.org >> >>> How do you mean "make of mingw does not require $(EXEEXT)"? AFAICT, >>> if the Makefile defines a target FOO, and there's a file FOO.exe that >>> is up to date wrt its dependencies, the MinGW Make will recompile >>> anyway, because it doesn't understand that linking FOO produces >>> FOO.exe. >>> >>> So I think MinGW and OS/2 are in the same wagon here. >> >> I've tested make v3.81 for i686-pc-msys shipped with msys. > > You are right about MSYS Make, but MSYS is not MinGW, and AFAIK the > patches to Make done by the (now defunct) MSYS team were not > contributed upstream, so we don't know what they changed. > > Note, however, that MSYS Make has other goals than MinGW: MSYS is > supposed to emulate Unix enough to allow use of unaltered Unix > Makefile's to build MinGW ports. So the issue that you are talking > about is an explicit goal for MSYS, more-or-less its raison d'être. > Thus, it is not surprising that MSYS does this.
Then, this patch is acceptable? Or MSYS is a special case ? -- KO Myung-Hun Using Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.7.2 Under OS/2 Warp 4 for Korean with FixPak #15 In VirtualBox v6.1.40 on Intel Core i7-3615QM 2.30GHz with 12GB RAM Korean OS/2 User Community : http://www.os2.kr/
