Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!amdahl!pacbell!ditka!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: SCO Xenix make(1) lacks MFLAGS Message-ID: <7849@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 14 Oct 88 01:24:55 GMT References: <164@libove.UUCP> <1988Oct6.193227.15140@ateng.ateng.com> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX Lines: 47 In article jl42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) writes: >chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >> Xenix make has "MAKEFLAGS". No hyphen, but it works. >> >> submake: >> cd subdir; $(MAKE) -$(MAKEFLAGS) > >MAKEFLAGS doesn't work right, doesn't contain the right information. What doesn't work about it? I tried it and it worked - -- Script is typescript, started Thu Oct 13 20:21:20 1988 Subscript out of range. 1 - rpp386-> cat Makefile all: echo $(MAKEFLAGS) ; cd c ; make -$(MAKEFLAGS) 2 - rpp386-> cat c/Makefile all: echo $(MAKEFLAGS) 3 - rpp386-> make echo b ; cd c ; make -b b echo b b 4 - rpp386-> make -k -n echo bkn ; cd c ; make -bkn 5 - rpp386-> make -k echo bk ; cd c ; make -bk bk echo bk bk 6 - rpp386-> logout Not a terminal: Not a character device John's Words of Wisdumb - But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about. -- Hilaire Belloc Script done Thu Oct 13 20:22:30 1988 -- What's wrong with this? -- John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US) HASA, "S" Division "Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same entropy to create bugs instead?" -- Steve Elias