Re: GNU make 3.81beta3 released

[J. Grant]

Hi Paul,

[...]
> Yes, I _JUST_ realized this myself.  I tried using diff -w and got the
> same results.
>
> Very curious.  This is a bug in make; it's getting the command name
> wrong somehow, for the MINGW port... yeah, this code is wrong:
>
>   #ifdef WINDOWS32
>         if (program == 0)
>           {
>             /* Extract program from full path */
>             int argv0_len;
>             char *p = strrchr (argv[0], '\\');
>             if (!p)
>               p = argv[0];
>             argv0_len = strlen(p);
>             if (argv0_len > 4
>                 && streq (&p[argv0_len - 4], ".exe"))
>               {
>                 /* Remove .exe extension */
>                 p[argv0_len - 4] = '\0';
>                 /* Increment past the initial '\' */
>                 program = p + 1;
>               }
>           }
>   #endif
>
> Let me look at this a minute.

I fixed this and posted a patch on 2 March 2005. Like my other patches 
it seems to
have been skipped. The others I have been planning to re-submit when I 
have a moment.
get a moment.  Did my March email not arrive ...?  I will forward it to 
the list again.

Kind regards
JG