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Xref: sserve comp.mail.elm:7174 comp.unix.bsd:8213 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!horga!reswi!smart.bo.open.de!tom From: tom@smart.bo.open.de (Thomas Neumann) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: elm 2.4 for 386bsd? Date: 25 Nov 1992 21:54:26 GMT Organization: News at smart Lines: 26 Message-ID: <TOM.92Nov25225426@smart.bo.open.de> References: <1992Nov18.031235.13671@moxie.hou.tx.us> <40rq334#@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: smart.bo.open.de In-reply-to: kmw@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de's message of Tue, 24 Nov 92 07:25:38 GMT >>>>> Regarding Re: elm 2.4 for 386bsd?; kmw@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Karsten M. Winkovics) adds: kmw> Greg Hackney (hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us) wrote: kmw> : kmw> : [about compiling elm-2.4 on 386BSD] kmw> : kmw> : 4. Type "make" and away you go. kmw> I did so. No change at all. Make starts and sits somewhere in kmw> memory, as ps reports, but nothing else ever happens.. no disk kmw> activity, nothing... not even after some time (hours, in fact, kmw> leaving the compiler alone overnight) kmw> Now what is really going on??? This one got me more than once on 386BSD. There is a bug in the 386BSD make which causes it to wait for a makefile to be read from stdin when make is invoked with a singe dash '-' with no options to follow. This typically happens during recursive makes in subdirectories of larger packages. You have at least three ways to circumvent this bug 1) Install the 386BSD-patchkit. This fixes the bug in make 2) Rearrange the elm Makefile (after running ./Configure, of course) 3) "make MAKEFLAGS=k" instead of just "make" *might* work bye -- Thomas