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From: mcgrath@paris.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath)
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Subject: Making with MH 6.7 GNU Make
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Date: 18 Jul 90 19:10:06 GMT
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In-reply-to: m5@lynx.uucp's message of 18 Jul 90 14:49:53 GMT

In article <7882@lynx.UUCP> m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) writes:

   Also, while I'm typing this, has anyone tried making MH6.7 with GNU
   make?  The makefiles all contain targets that look (to GNU make) like
   implied .o -> executable rules, and so it attempts to link all the
   library modules, failing of course.  This doesn't hurt anything, but
   it does take time.

I assume you mean there are things like:

	foo: foo.o

and GNU Make tries to link foo from all its dependencies.  The cure for this is
to insert:

	.o:;

to remove the built-in implicit rule.
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	Roland McGrath
	Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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