From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Mon Nov 16 17:22:12 1998
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 09:22:12 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Solaris make for 0.63 failing
In-Reply-To: <98Nov16.121631est.13448@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.03.9811160908490.24696-100000@wompom.biostat.washington.edu>

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> >You absolutely need GNU make, and on Solaris 2.6 you also need not to
> >use make-3.77 (the current version) as that has a bug which affects
> >this.  `They' are using features found in few makes.
> 
> I seem to be using GNU make 3.77. Is this a bug that is in both the Sun make and
> the most recent GNU make, or is the R makefile doing something wrong?

It (appears to be) a bug in GNU make 3.77, which is not expanding the
wildcards correctly. It is not a bug in Sun make, it's just that Makefile
uses a feature that Sun make doesn't have. Whether this is 'something
wrong' is open to debate (though not very interesting debate).  A fix of
the Makefile to operate with everyone's favorite make is certainly a goal.

	-thomas







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Solaris make for 0.63 failing
Thomas Lumley