Compilation failure of MAKE-3.79 under MS Visual Studio 6

2000-06-17 Thread Pratt, Nick
Hi I just grabbed make-3.79 off the GNU ftp site, and attempted to build nmake under Microsoft NT 4 sp6a, using Visual Studio 6, sp3. I ran the following command line: nmake /F NMakeFile and got the following compilation error: Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 6.00.8168.0 C

Re: GNU make 3.79

2000-06-17 Thread Reid Madsen
The following test case can be used to demonstrate the bug: a: @echo $(addprefix foo_,) The bug is in the handle_function() func in function.c. Specifically, in the following loop: p=beg; <<< FYI this is redundant! It is initialized in the 'for' nargs = 0; for (p=b