Re: How to get gnumake3.8.2 Run in Unix mode on windows platform

Christopher Faylor <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:53:27 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:51:54AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
>On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 03:08 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
>> Currently I am  using gnumake3.8.0 with --unix option to Run in UNIX
>> mode
>
>You mean GNU make 3.80 and 3.82.  There's no version 3.8.0. or 3.8.2.
>
>> I just download gnumake3.8.2 and tried to compile but it seems --unix
>> option is remove and I am getting following error:
>
>There is not nor has there ever been a "--unix" option for GNU make in
>the standard version.  If your version of GNU make had a "--unix"
>option, it must have been a customized version.  Are you using Cygwin?
>Maybe this is something added by the Cygwin folks.

There was a --unix in an old version of Cygwin's make.  It hasn't been
part of the Cygwin release for years though.

cgf