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From: ram@deepthot.UUCP (M.V.S. Ramanath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: make question
Message-ID: <1017@deepthot.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 20:32:29 GMT
Organization: UWO CS, London Canada
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Make (on a Sun 3-50/SunOS 3.2) produces the following diagnostic:

$! nulled, predecessor circle

when run on a makefile containing:

a.c: a
	yacc a
	mv y.tab.c a.c

but appears to correctly run yacc and mv. On a VAX running BSD4.2
the diagnostic does not appear. Is this cause for concern? I can
find no reference in the Sun manuals to '$!'. Any explanations ?

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