Re: Problem with make-3.79 on *BSD

2000-05-11 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Volker Borchert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: vb> I am experiencing test failures on both NetBSD-1.4.2/sun3x and vb> OpenBSD-2.3/sparc. The symptom is that the output (STDOUT/STDERR) vb> log files contain lots and lots of rubbish, mostly nulls. Yuck! I haven't had any reports like that.

Problem with make-3.79 on *BSD

2000-05-11 Thread Volker Borchert
Hi, I am experiencing test failures on both NetBSD-1.4.2/sun3x and OpenBSD-2.3/sparc. The symptom is that the output (STDOUT/STDERR) log files contain lots and lots of rubbish, mostly nulls. I do not know how to tell whether this is a problem with my perl installations or with make. IIRC I have

Make behaviour on symlinks

2000-05-11 Thread conrad . roeber
Hi, we use Continuus as configuration management tool. In conjunction with GNU make files frequently are not recompiled when they should be. The reason is as follows: If a file is checked out, a symlink is created in the user's work area that referring to some file under Continuus' control. W