make check fails on make 3.79, and 3.79.1

2001-05-23 Thread David Forrest
Attached is a copy of the output from make check on a make-3.79.1 using configure --prefix=/usr make and make --version GNU Make version 3.78.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. on a redhat 7.0 system Is it good enough to install, even though it fails its own tests? Dave. -- Dave

Is it normal?!

2001-05-23 Thread Alexandru Carstoiu
Hello, I would like to know if this is normal, though it seems to be a BUG. Given this makefile: .SUFFIXES: .PHONY : rule r:=bau i:=b rule:  @echo @$(if $(findstring $i,$r), T , F )@ the result of running "make" on it is:"@ T @" However, if we change the value of $i by replacing the 5th line with