Re: Undocumented stuff in `make'

2001-03-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Regarding Undocumented stuff in `make'; you wrote: ek> I discovered an undocumented feature in `make' (version 3.79.1 ek> on MS-DOS). There seems to be a variable assignment operator, ek> `?:=', which is not worth a mention according to the `make' ek> documentation (file `info/make.inf

Undocumented stuff in `make'

2001-03-28 Thread Eemeli Kantola
I discovered an undocumented feature in `makeĀ“ (version 3.79.1 on MS-DOS). There seems to be a variable assignment operator, `?:=', which is not worth a mention according to the `make' documentation (file `info/make.info'). This can be found out by running the following test makefile: # makefile

Re: make-3.79.1

2001-03-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% winfried szukalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ws> But the following command 'make install' triggered the compilation ws> of the kernel once more. ws> I had used make-3.78.1 before. These complications are new. And ws> unusual. I suppose a bug in make-3.79.1 . There's absolutely not

make-3.79.1

2001-03-28 Thread winfried szukalski
Dear gnu :) last weekend I compiled glibc-2.2.2 and gcc-2.95.3 on Linux 2.4.2 #5 Tue Mar 27 20:39:04 UTC 2001 i586 unknown But beforehand I had to install binutils-2.11.90.0.1 and make-3.79.1 . The compilation of glibc and gcc were successful. Then I wanted to compile the linux kernel 2.4.2