ram@deepthot.UUCP (M.V.S. Ramanath) (02/10/88)
Make (on a Sun 3-50/SunOS 3.2) produces the following diagnostic: $! nulled, predecessor circle when run on a makefile containing: a.c: a yacc a mv y.tab.c a.c but appears to correctly run yacc and mv. On a VAX running BSD4.2 the diagnostic does not appear. Is this cause for concern? I can find no reference in the Sun manuals to '$!'. Any explanations ? ram@uwovax.BITNET or ram@julian.UUCP or ram@uwocsd.UWO.CDN or ...!decvax!utzoo!julian!uwocsd!ram ...!ihnp4!watmath!julian!uwocsd!ram
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (02/11/88)
In article <1017@deepthot.UUCP> ram@deepthot.UUCP (M.V.S. Ramanath) writes: >$! nulled, predecessor circle >a.c: a That's because "make" has a built-in rule for making "a" from "a.c".
sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) (02/16/88)
Doesn't your make have default rules for making a.c and a.o from a.y (which
is what your file "a" _should_ be named)? Our System V 3.1 does.
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