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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Bugs in the AT&T Toolchest program 'nmake'
Keywords: nmake
Message-ID: <187@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 89 17:14:11 GMT
References: <1640@internal.Apple.COM> <6561@ardent.UUCP> <11562@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <11562@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) writes:

| That particular version of nmake being distributed by the Toolchest
| might be buggy, but newer versions are not.

If it is not available to persons outside of AT&T, then it might as well
not exist at all, as far as they are concerned.

| But can gnu-make prevent you from running simultaneous yacc jobs
| on the same directory? This wouldn't work as yacc uses a fixed file
| name (y.tab.c) which would be overwritten by the multiple yacc's
| (yes, nmake does know about yacc and other tools which can't be run
| in parallel).

Sounds like a bug in yacc to me.  Why not fix yacc to use a unique filename?


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