Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!mstan!frank
From: frank@Morgan.COM (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: A Warning About Sun's Make
Message-ID: <222@hudson.Morgan.COM>
Date: 31 Jan 89 17:18:08 GMT
Reply-To: frank@Morgan.COM (Frank Wortner)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Morgan Stanley and Co., NY, NY
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This is not really a bug report, but rather a warning.  If I'm wrong to
post it here, apologies in advance.  I just thought I'd save a few
people some frustration.

Processing a texinfo file with TeX and texindex produces a file
suffixed ".cps".  If you use Sun's make program, beware that it
assumes ".cps" files contain C/PostScript interface routines (for use
with NeWS).  Sun make may decide to run "cps" on the file, and clobber
source code.  I roasted my copy of "tar.c" when Sun's make decided to
remanufacture it from "tar.cps".  Be careful!

-- 
						Frank
				uunet!s5!frank -or- frank@morgan.com

"Computers are mistake amplifiers."