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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: make & ksh
Message-ID: <10433@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 11 Nov 88 13:57:21 GMT
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Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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Someone said:
>     We had the second problem too, and tracked down to a bug in
> make that was triggered by Aspen ksh.  ksh exports the _
> environment variable, and when make is looking at the env for
> variables, it croaks on the non-alphanum character.

I can't duplicate this behavior.  GNU make doesn't have this problem
at all, nor did AT&T make when I tried it.  I never run sh, just ksh.

Someone else said:
> Will Microport be supplying a fixed make on  the bbs anytime soon?
> Please?

GNU make works pretty well on a 386.
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