GNU Make 3.80 problem on Solaris 8

[Warren L Dodge]

We are having a problem with GNU Make 3.80 on our Solaris 8 system. When
using the same verion of GNU Make on a GNU Linux system if works fine.

It was pointed out to me that an old copy of GNU make-3.70 worked
fine. Indeed it does. I took the source for the 3.70 and comiled them the
same way I have done the 3.80. The make-3.70 still works as expected.


Have you seen this? I see there is no later version of make available.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks You
Warren Dodge



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SunOS albert 5.8 Generic_108528-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 Solaris

mkdir gmake.solaris
cd gmake.solaris
mkdir orig
touch orig/file.db

Makefile contains the following

all: file.db

%.db: orig/%.db
        @echo 'Importing $<'
        /bin/cp -p $< .


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Now do a gmake all

gmake all
Importing orig/file.db
/bin/cp -p orig/file.db .

Then make again and it copies the file again

gmake all
Importing orig/file.db
/bin/cp -p orig/file.db .


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On GNU Linux

Linux zephyr 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELhugemem #1 SMP Tue May 17 17:43:22 EDT 2005 i686 
unknown unknown GNU/Linux

mkdir gmake.GNU_Linux
cd gmake.GNU_Linux
mkdir orig
touch orig/file.db

Makefile contains the following

all: file.db

%.db: orig/%.db
        @echo 'Importing $<'
        /bin/cp -p $< .


Now do the gmake all

gmake all
Importing orig/file.db
/bin/cp -p orig/file.db .

make all
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

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