Re: mingw32-make does not set $(RM) to "del"
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:33:27 +0200
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> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 14:29:17 +0800 > From: Yongwei Wu <[email protected]> > > > There just isn't a good alternative on Windows. I might support > > leaving this variable undefined on Windows, but using 'del" is a > > non-starter. > > If one uses Unix-style tools like make.exe, one should definitely also > need tools like rm, ls, wc, grep, etc. I agree (and I do), but I won't force others to do that. So if it is deemed better to have that variable undefined on Windows, I might be convinced to do that. The number of Makefile's out there which use these defaults is small anyway, according to my experience.