GNU Make 3.81 is broken under Windows

[cxbrooks]

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Original bug ID: BZ#55
From: @cxbrooks
Reported version: 6.0.1
CC: pt-dev@chess.eecs.berkeley.edu

[cxbrooks]

GNU Make 3.81 no longer supports Windows style
path names with colons in them. The affects the Copernicus
code generator because $PTII needs to be set to a pathname
with a colon in it like c:/Ptolemy/ptII6.0.1.
A path name like /cygdrive/c/Ptolemy/ptII6.0.1
will not work with Java.

For example, if you run copernicus and copernicus runs
make, you may see

makefile:360: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.

This is because a makefile variable uses the windows style
pathnames with colons in them. One solution is to
edit the file to use pathnames with /cygdrive.
Another solution is to download a working version from
http://www.cmake.org/files/cygwin/make.exe

For details, see
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-07/msg00008.html

From: Christopher Faylor
To: cygwin-announce at cygwin dot com
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 18:13:29 -0400
I've made a new version of 'make' available for download. This updates
the package to the latest version available from fedora.redhat.com.
I've included the relevant portions of the NEWS file and the Fedora
ChangeLog at the end of this message.

For a brief description of this package, see http://cygwin.com/packages

Note that the --win32 command line option and "MAKE_MODE" environment
variable are no longer supported in Cygwin's make. If you need to use a
Makefile which contains MS-DOS path names, then please use a MinGW
version of make.

See: http://mingw.org/ for details on downloading a version of make
which understands MS-DOS path names. Please! direct any questions about
the MinGW version of make to the appropriate MinGW mailing list.

I have no idea what prompted this change, it seems really lame.
The code worked fine under Cygwin for many years. Our current makefiles work
under both Windows and various Unixes. It seems like breaking
an important tool such as make only hurts the GNU tools.

[cxbrooks]

Created attachment 49
GNU make 3.80 compiled for Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit

Attached is a copy of GNU make 3.80 compiled for Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit.

To do the compile, when running ./configure, I got

./config/config.guess: unable to guess system type

To fix this, I had to edit config/config.guess and add

x86*:CYGWIN*:*)
echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-pc-cygwin
exit 0;;

Attached file: cygwin-make-3.80.tar.gz (application/x-gzip, 281829 bytes)
Description: GNU make 3.80 compiled for Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit