On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:13:45PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote: > My solution assumes (for now) that "make -C" works, and that make sets > $(MAKE). Both of these assumptions are probably broken somewhere.
I don't think make -C is correct outside of GNU make, though ICBW. I certainly thought I'd been bitten by this in the past. BSD Make (on a quick check) doesn't appear to have it... | [mbm@colon]:~$ make -C tmp | make: illegal option -- C | usage: make [-Beiknqrstv] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-E variable] [-f makefile] | [-I directory] [-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-V variable] | [variable=value] [target ...] | [mbm@colon]:~$ uname -a | FreeBSD colon.colondot.net 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Tue Nov 20 17:30:53 GMT |2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/COLONDOT i386 MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/