make-3.57 and /bin/make incompatibility

Article View: gnu.utils.bug

Article #572

#572

From: Hiroto Kagotani
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 10:48

7 lines
789 bytes

A line such as "MFLAGS=p" in the Makefile forces make-3.57 to print the
rules and variables data base. /bin/make on our Sun does not refer MFLAGS
in Makefile.
I found this incompatibility when I tried to construct SeeTeX kit for X11.
Is this a feature of gnu make?
--
                                        kagotani@cs.titech.ac.jp

Technical Details

Message-ID: <3885@koudai.cs.titech.ac.jp>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!bigtex!rena!kogwy!titcca!cs.titech!koudai!kagotani

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!bigtex!rena!kogwy!titcca!cs.titech!koudai!kagotani
From: kagotani@cs.titech.ac.jp (Hiroto Kagotani)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: make-3.57 and /bin/make incompatibility
Message-ID: <3885@koudai.cs.titech.ac.jp>
Date: 1 Dec 89 10:48:50 GMT
Sender: news@cs.titech.ac.jp
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Tokyo Institute of Tech., Dept. of Computer Science, Japan
Lines: 7