Martin Dorey wrote: > > (b) the messages are only produced for some words > > That's not the case for me, with Debian Lenny's 3.81. > > mart...@whitewater:~/tmp$ dpkg -S `which make` > make: /usr/bin/make > mart...@whitewater:~/tmp$ dpkg --status make > ... > Version: 3.81-5 > ... > mart...@whitewater:~/tmp$ make -f buggyMakefile > buggyMakefile:2: target `normal' given more than once in the same rule. > buggyMakefile:2: target `c99-pedantic' given more than once in the same rule. > buggyMakefile:2: target `c89-pedantic' given more than once in the same rule. > buggyMakefile:2: target `foobar' given more than once in the same rule. > buggyMakefile:2: target `baz' given more than once in the same rule. > make: `normal' is up to date. > mart...@whitewater:~/tmp$ > > > GNU MAke 3.81 > > That capital A... surely not a hardware fault?
No, quite sure it's a typo when editing. Note that the above output from Lenny is also wrong; there shouldn't be any error messages. There are no duplicate targets, because "normal" is not the same target as "normal/". -- Jamie _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
