Re: Make 3.79.1 on OpenVMS

2002-09-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: z> if (listp) z> ..^ z> %CC-E-UNDECLARED, In this statement, "listp" is not declared. z> at line number 204 in file DISK$USER:[ZINSER.TMP.MAKE]variable.c;3 z> ---> This is really serious since it does cause the compilation z> t

Make 3.79.1 on OpenVMS

2002-09-24 Thread zinser
Hello, I was recently contacted by a user trying to build GNU make on OpenVMS. This prompted me to check version 3.79.1 on my own system and I did receive the following messages during compilation: $ @makefile Compiling alloca... Compiling ar... Compiling arscan... Compiling commands... Compili

Re: target fails to evaluate

2002-09-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Mark Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mj> make is failing to evaluate a target ".INIT" which is intended to mj> fetch required files. GNU make does not support any special behavior for a ".INIT" target. It's treated as just a normal target. mj> os:sh = uname -r mj> versi

target fails to evaluate

2002-09-24 Thread Mark Jaffe
make is failing to evaluate a target ".INIT" which is intended to fetch required files. It is also failing to evaluate the environment to determine suitable host os/version: [mjaffe@taylorws] ~/Kernel> uname -r 5.7 [mjaffe@taylorws] ~/Kernel> grep Solaris /etc/release | awk '{ print $3 }' 8/9

Re: Too speedy problem

2002-09-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
Yes, this is a known issue with make and with any other tool that operates based on comparing timestamps. The debug messages I guess are a little misleading in this case... when it says "prerequisite is newer" what it really means is that the prerequisite was changed during this invocation of mak

Too speedy problem

2002-09-24 Thread Michael Gertz
Hi all, I'm a numerical analysis who has been running a script that solves a standard test set of optimization problems by repeatedly linking them with an optimization code and then running the resulting executable. Some of these problems are old and solve very quickly on modern computers. This