Re: Which make binary to use for Windows?

Hi Michael, Thorsten,

Thanks for answering. I tested LODE and it built without problem. So I've
submitted a patch to fix the warning:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/65882/ .


Michael Stahl <mst@libreoffice.org> 於 2019年1月7日 週一 下午8:14寫道：

> On 03.01.19 15:07, Mark Hung wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After libcdr and libqxp upgraded, I could no longer build them in my
> > environment. Make dependencies failed at 'mkdir -p'. Though solution
> > proposed https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/65769/ worked me, I
> wondered
> > why Jenkins didn't complain.
> >
> > I compared three versions of make -
> >
> > Cygwin released GNU make 4.2 :  ok
> > Prebuild binary:
> > https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bin/cygwin/make-85047eb-msvc.exe:
> failed.
>
> that's interesting, i wasn't aware of that.
>
> GNU make 4.2 built by my self following autogen.sh instructions: ok
>
> this is the latest one:
>
> https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bin/cygwin/make-4.2.1-msvc.exe
>
> it's built with MSVC, for Win32.
>
> > Which version is expected? Is the warning message popped out when
> > running autogen.sh with Cygwin released GNU make "Your make version is
> > known to be horribly slow" still legitimate?
>
> yes Cygwin make is horribly slow, so use a Win32 build, see
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2014-June/061727.html
Thanks.

-- 
Mark Hung