On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 13:13 +0530, Nachiketa Gupta wrote:
> Hi All,
> MAKE version 3.8
> So my question is why does it always print -j independent of -j
> value?
> is some make.conf file located in our area which is overriding this
> variable with -j?
> I have also confirmed that with the 4.3 vers
2:43 PM
To: RYTTING,MICHAEL (A-ColSprings,ex1)
Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make bug with ONESHELL and SHELLFLAGS
I believe the patch below would fix this. It's up to Paul of course whether he
considers it a bug and considers the patch worthy. The only concern I have with
it is that th
I believe the patch below would fix this. It's up to Paul of course
whether he considers it a bug and considers the patch worthy. The only
concern I have with it is that there may be places where the argv is
assumed to be exactly 4 slots wide (shell, flags, recipe, null) and
only the first 3 slots
%% Pierre B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pb> The problem is with the backquote AND/OR addprefix.
pb> The following makefile illustrates the bug.
I think you're misunderstanding something basic here.
Make does not process backquotes. The shell processes backquotes. Make
only processes functi
I'm sorry, but first you're using Cygnus GNU make which is not identical
to the standard GNU make provided by the GNU project; you need to direct
your problem to Cygnus/Red Hat.
Second, unfortunately we don't have the resources at GNU to handle
Windows-specific issues; certainly we can't do anyth
The patch I believe you refer to is below.
I couldn't reproduce your second problem, with $@. If you can construct
a test case that reliably reproduces it, I'm interested. Thanks.
--- make-3.79.1/job.c Fri Jun 23 11:54:56 2000
+++ make/job.c Wed May 2 01:17:08 2001
@@ -895,8 +895,14 @@
%% Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
l> I'm still a new guy to linux, but whenever i try to 'make' a file,
l> eg 'Make install' I get the error "Makefile:3:: *** missing
l> separator. Stop."
There's a section in the GNU make manual on error messages which will
explain it.
This is GNU make
%% Agnes Voisard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
av> Hi I try to install emacs under redhat 6.2 I got emacs-20.5.rpm
av> but to install it I need make.
av> I hence tried to install make. I got make-3.78.1.rpm and I try to
av> install it.
If you get a binary RPM, you don't need to compile i
