%% "Andreas M. Kirchwitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: amk> fubar: amk> /bin/echo hello
amk> I've tested this on Solaris 10 3/05 (official release) amk> on various SPARC, Intel and AMD systems. amk> Solaris 10 doesn't seem to be very popular, but since amk> /usr/sfw/bin/gmake (version 3.80) on Solaris shows the amk> same behaviour, I couldn't believe that Sun ships a amk> non-working gmake, and so I did further investigation. amk> Now, I've found out that the environment variable "LC_CTYPE" amk> seems to have a big influence. amk> If LC_CTYPE is unset or set to "C" or "POSIX", amk> it works perfectly fine. amk> But if LC_CTYPE is set to "iso_8859_1", then make crashes. amk> LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1 /usr/local/src/make-3.81beta2/make amk> Abort - core dumped Hm. That's a little confusing to me since make doesn't really do anything with locales except through gettext. Can you "rm *.o", then re-run make with debugging on and optimization off, like this: make CFLAGS=-g Then re-run your test, and use the debugger to send me a backtrace of where it crashes? Thanks... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make