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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Question about Make
Message-ID: <754@splut.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 88 13:12:33 GMT
References: <322@sdti.UUCP>
Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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In article <322@sdti.UUCP> mjy@sdti.UUCP (Michael J. Young) writes:
>Whenever I try to run 'make' on a makefile that contains nested
>'make' commands, I get a core dump.  Has anyone else observed this
>behavior?  Setting SHELL=/bin/sh doesn't seem to make any difference.
>Is this a bug in 'make'?  What am I missing?

Good question.
I think this is the cause of the failure I mentioned to John Plocher a
few days ago, where I can't get news 3.0 to compile - it uses nested
makes, in part to make the makefile for a subsequent make. It's really
slick, but SV/AT 2.3 throws up all over it (that is, when my system
doesn't double panic first).

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