Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!denny
From: denny@mcmi.UUCP (Denny Page)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Re: Can't make 'make' without directory routines - need help
Message-ID: <1050@mcmi.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 89 14:24:09 GMT
References: <768@kosman.UUCP>
Reply-To: denny@mcmi.UUCP (Denny Page)
Organization: MCMI, Omaha, NE
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kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
>I just got the latest 'make' sources and tried to make them with gcc 1.35
>on my 3b1.  First, I found I needed to get ndir.h from the emacs sources
>(how annoying! -- can't they make these things complete?).

Why distribute 16,000 copies of code that most people already have?
If you don't have it, get it from the archives.  Gwyn's is PD.  If you
can't do that, strip the one out of emacs. -- it shouldn't be hard.


>I'm pretty sure I have the complete make sources, but I could use some
>help from anyone who has made this thing in a stock SYSV system.

We have several "stock" sysV systems here... I don't count our 3b1
among the list :-).  The stockiest (:-) system that we have, 3.1 on
a 3B2/600, has these routines in libc.a.
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