Re: problem with GNU make

[Jon Grant]

Hi,

address@hidden elucidated on 08/02/07 21:53:
> i have some old (circa 1997) makefiles which run fine on current UNIX systems 
> with their versions of make. if i run gnu make as make -n then GNU make shows 
> the commands that will be executed just fine however, when i actually issue 
> the make command then none of the commands as reported via make -n are 
> actually executed.
>
> is this a known problem; is there a workaround ?

Sounds like a configuration problem, just an idea, but are you setting 
SHELL?

Are you running GNU Make v3.81 ? Perhaps you can try with that latest 
release.

If you can post a small reproducible test case, telling us your OS, 
shell and make version we could help a bit more.

Best regards
Jon
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