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From: uh311ae@sun7.lrz-muenchen.de (Henrik Klagges)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: pmake
Keywords: Make's built-in rules
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Date: 31 Oct 90 12:31:48 GMT
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Hello,

David Hinds (dhinds@cb-iris.stanford.edu) writes:
|>This led to my second problem: that pmake sometimes tries really hard to
|>use built-in rules even if I explicitly specify each necessary transformation
|>in the makefile.  

I stumbled over the same problem. 

Fix1:  There is a flag that can be supplied to make to disable its 
	   built-in rules (RT*M 8).
Fix2:  Use gnumake. It needs only small adaptions to compile on SGI (I have it).

Yours, Henrik Klagges

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