ext Paul D. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:21 AM
To: J. Grant
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Path to binary in --help or --version
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I'm still not very clear on why you want the path to make.
It seems to
me that checking the version value should be able to
Hello,
I have different win32 builds, which I do not think are sufficiently
different in their --help. I'm not sure if they should do this either.
I thought something appended to the help output such as below would make
it clear:
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Path to binary: /usr/local/bin/make
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> -Original Message-
> From: ext Paul D. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:21 AM
> To: J. Grant
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Path to binary in --help or --version
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> I'm still not very clear on why you want the pat
%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 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?
jg> For instance, cygwin make ver 3.80 and msys/mingw make ver 3.80,
jg> both installe
Hi,
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?
For instance, cygwin make ver 3.80 and msys/mingw make ver 3.80, both
installed, and used by different build processes. However, there are
pro
%% "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
Hi,
One problem I have frequently come across is having multiple incompatible
versions of make installed.
This would be solved if the path was visible. Could the path to the binary
being run be added to the --help or --version output please?
Alternatively if I submit a patch to add this will it b
