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-Port of GNU make to Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
-Builds natively with MSVC 2.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x and MSVC.NET 7.x.
-Also builds with the MinGW port of GCC 3.x (tested with GCC 3.4.2).
+This version of GNU make has been tested on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003.
+It has also been used on Windows 95/98/NT, and on OS/2.
+
+It builds natively with MSVC 2.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 2003 as well as
+.NET 7.x and .NET 2003.
+
+It builds with the MinGW port of GCC 3.x (tested with GCC 3.4.2).
The Windows 32-bit port of GNU make is maintained jointly by various
people. It was originally made by Rob Tulloh.
@@ -234,23 +238,23 @@ SAMBA/NTFS/VFAT:
package using SAMBA as my file server. The reason seems to be
related to the way VC++ 4.0 changes the case name of the pdb
filename it is passed on the command line. It seems to change
- the name always to to lower case. I contend that
- the VC++ compiler should not change the casename of files that
- are passed as arguments on the command line. I don't think this
- was a problem in MSVC 2.x, but I know it is a problem in MSVC 4.x.
+ the name always to to lower case. I contend that the VC++
+ compiler should not change the casename of files that are passed
+ as arguments on the command line. I don't think this was a
+ problem in MSVC 2.x, but I know it is a problem in MSVC 4.x.
The package builds fine on VFAT and NTFS filesystems.
Most all of the development I have done to date has been using
NTFS and long file names. I have not done any considerable work
- under VFAT. VFAT users may wish to be aware that this port
- of make does respect case sensitivity.
+ under VFAT. VFAT users may wish to be aware that this port of
+ make does respect case sensitivity.
FAT:
- Version 3.76 added support for FAT filesystems. Make
- works around some difficulties with stat'ing of
- files and caching of filenames and directories internally.
+ Version 3.76 added support for FAT filesystems. Make works
+ around some difficulties with stat'ing of files and caching of
+ filenames and directories internally.
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