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From: isl@fmi.uunet.uu.net (Ivan S. Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Makefile and csh...?
Message-ID: <1991May30.153138.9768@fmi.uunet.uu.net>
Date: 30 May 91 15:31:38 GMT
References: <1991May21.210000.15284@shearson.com>
Reply-To: isl@fmi.UUCP (Ivan S. Leung)
Organization: Facsimile Marketing, Inc.
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In article <1991May21.210000.15284@shearson.com> you write:
>The simple makefile looks like this:
>
>SHELL = /bin/csh
>CFILES = test.c
>
>dependencies :
>	cc -M $(CFILES) > deps
>
>When run, the computer generates:
>143 kaplanr - make
>cc -M test.c > deps
>*** Error code 1
>make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `dependencies'

You may have "set noclobber" in your .cshrc or .login files.
change the command to "cc -M $(CFILES) >! deps" should fix it.
It will be nice if we can do "SHELL=/bin/csh -c" but we can't.
Could somebody suggest a better solution?
-- 
Ivan Leung      fmi!isl@uunet.uu.net