kevin@kosman.nrc.com (Kevin O`Gorman) (01/14/90)
I have made gcc a number of times just fine. Then I installed GNU make (3.55) and it just won't go. I'm sending this as a bug to both products; you can sort out whose fault it really is. I have tracked it down to config.status in the Makefile. It appears that this rule is always executed for some reason. This is even true if I do something like touch config.status make Then, because this rule is a kind of error trap, it's all over. I'm not sure whose problem this really is. It looks like one of the enhancements to GNU make may have been overly aggressive; I would have hoped that old Makefiles would continue to work correctly. There are after all, a whole *lot* of existing Makefiles.... Bug in the documentation department: the make docs are tutorial in nature, and pretty hopeless for reference use. I'm not going to try to wade through everything to try to figure this out. -- Kevin O'Gorman ( kevin@kosman.UUCP, kevin%kosman.uucp@nrc.com ) voice: 805-984-8042 Vital Computer Systems, 5115 Beachcomber, Oxnard, CA 93035 Non-Disclaimer: my boss is me, and he stands behind everything I say.