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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: 386BSD: news stuff
Message-ID: <1992Sep22.174835.22712@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 92 17:48:35 GMT
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In article <TOM.92Sep21083532@smart.bo.open.de> tom@smart.bo.open.de (Thomas Neumann) writes:
>Ah, one more: If your ``make depend'' seems to simply hang until you
>interrupt it after echoing ``Making depend under conf ...'', this is
>due to 386bsd make not passing MAKEFLAGS somehow, so sub-makes may
>get invoked with (make - depend; ...). Note the lack of any commandline
>flags after the hyphen just before depend. This causes make to wait and
>read stdin, of course :-)
This is actually fixed by one of the patches I derived from the 4.3-reno
patches. The correct mechanism is to ignore the "-" by itself on a line,
according to the patch-poster.
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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