Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problem with "test" in Makefiles in building CNews
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.183123.13661@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5232@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 1991 18:31:23 GMT

In article <5232@husc6.harvard.edu> olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric K. Olson) writes:
>While compiling CNews via build & the doit scripts, I get the error:
>make: cannot load test.
>On each occurence of anything of the form:
>        test <condition>
>from within a Makefile...

Known bug in SysV make, see notebook/problems.

How old is your C News?  As far as I know, all occurrences of "test" in the
Makefiles nowadays are written as

	test <condition> ;

where the semicolon tricks broken versions of make into bypassing the shortcut
that causes the trouble.
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