From Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>  Mon Nov 16 17:22:04 1998
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:22:04 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Solaris make for 0.63 failing
Message-ID: <199811161722.RAA07066@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>


> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:50:52 -0500
> From: Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca>
> To: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>, R-devel 
<R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: Solaris make for 0.63 failing
> 
> GNU make does not seem to work either.

So you were not using GNU make before?

> 
> I don't understand make very well but
>         Trying pattern rule with stem `*.[chf]'.
>         Rejecting impossible implicit dependency
> `src/library/mva/src/*.[chf].f'.
> Near the end of the following  make -d looks a little strange to me. Why does 
it
> have ".f" after ".[chf]"

That is the bug in GNU make 3.77.  Either fix it (as per my last message)
or go back to 3.76-1.

I had a lot of trouble with this a few weeks' ago.

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Solaris make for 0.63 failing
Prof Brian Ripley