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Re: emx .8f broke make 3.62

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From: Clemens Beckstein
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 09:54
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rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden) writes:

>In article <1993Jan5.192219.9159@wam.umd.edu> jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal) writes:
>>
>>I installed the new version of emx last night (.8f) and it appears that
>>GNU make 3.62 has died.  I looked in make.exe and discovered it was compiled
>>with emx .8b, so the new .DLL's are probably incompatible with the old
>>compiler.  Murphy's law got me because I tested all of the commands except
>>make (doing 1 line compiles entered from the command line) and of course
>>make had to break.

>I had the same problems when I loaded emx 0.8f but the solution was just to
>take a little while to build make again.  Unzip make and the sources.  Go into
>the source subdirectory and issue a make command.  Once it has stopped doing
>anything, you need to enter a control-c (to break make) and then issue a
>make again.  It will take you about 15-30 minutes to do this and I believe
>there is an error in the source to one of the c files.  It wants to use a
>function int max(int a, int b) which is not defined anywhere.  Simply add it
>it in (2 lines of code) in the appropriate file and you should be set.

>--Ronald Van Iwaarden

Could you possibly post the new executable?
Would save many of us --- I guess --- a lot of hassles...

Cheers,

- Clemens
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