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Started by Drazen Borkovic
Fri, 19 Jan 1990 23:27
difference between gnu make and make
Author: Drazen Borkovic
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1990 23:27
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1990 23:27
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I tried sending this to <roland@wheaties.ai.mit.edu>, but the mail bounced. I am not quite sure which of the involved program is at fault, but i guess you might know. I have a Makefile containing something like: all: 390-latex file 390-latex is a /bin/sh script that executes latex on a remote machine (much faster than local one). The problem i had was that although gnumake was reporting that it passed command "390-latex file", 390-latex was behaving as it did not receive any parameters (i confirmed it by adding an "echo" at the beginning of 390-latex). I tracked the problem to the first line of 390-latex: it was empty and only the second line contained "#!/bin/sh". When this was fixed, everything worked fine. The thing that still bothers me is that if i used ordinary make, the wrong 390-latex worked correctly, but with gnumake it wasn't the case. Also, if i used ordinary (local) latex which is ordinary binary (not a script), BOTH makes worked correctly - i.e. parameters were passed. I do not know if there is a difference between makes in a way they execute individual commands, but i would be interested in what caused different behaviour. SYSTEM: sun 3/60 with OS 3.5, my interactive shell was bash, gnumake version 3.57, if you need extra data, please let me know Thanks for listening (reading) and i hope this was not inappropriate. Drazen Borkovic Caltech 256-80 Pasadena CA 91125 drazen@vlsi.caltech.edu
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