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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Why does System V make use SCCS's -p option when getting files?
Message-ID: <7474@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 11:40:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: elsie.7474
Posted: Sun Aug 30 11:40:11 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 00:44:25 EDT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
Lines: 33
Keywords: SCCS make

System V's make command uses SCCS's -p option when getting files,
which sometimes makes for problems, as shown below:

		Script started on Sun Aug 30 11:24:13 1987
		$ mkdir try try/SCCS
		$ cd try
		./try
		$ echo %W% > try.c
		$ sccs admin -itry.c try.c
		$ rm try.c
		$ /usr/5bin/make try
	>>>>>>		get  -p SCCS/s.try.c > try.c
		1.1
		1 lines
			cc -O  try.c -o try
		"try.c", line 1: illegal character: 100 (octal)
		"try.c", line 1: cannot recover from earlier errors: goodbye!
		*** Error code 1

		Stop.
		$ sccs edit try.c
	>>>>>>	ERROR [SCCS/s.try.c]: writable `try.c' exists (ge4)
		$ exit

		script done on Sun Aug 30 11:25:17 1987

Now I realize that by putting
		GET='umask 222 ; get'
into the environment I can avoid problems.  But my question is:
why does make use the -p option, rather than just "get"ting the file?
If you have any ideas, I'd appreciate hearing from you by mail.
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