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From:	"Brown, Kim" <Kim DOT Brown AT wl DOT com>
To:	"'Blob, Dave'" <Dave DOT Blob AT gs DOT com>,
	"'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'"
	<cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Problem with make
Date:	Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:43:18 -0400
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I have found GNU make to be buggy with some makefiles, especially those
generated by PERL install packages.  I just use nmake from microsoft without
problems.  Anyone else have problems with GNU make?

> 
> Ok, this is a wierd one, so bear with me.
> 
> I've been using cygwin to do some java development with a 
> coworker.  For a
> while, we were just doing "jikes *.java", and had no problems.  As the
> project grew, we split things into packages and added 
> Makefiles to build the
> whole project.  The problem that showed up was that it worked 
> for me, but
> not for him - he'd get an error message each time that said "jikes -
> permission denied".  The same command that make was trying to 
> execute worked
> from the command line though... Perplexing.  We switched to 
> javac - worked
> fine.  
> 
> Anyhow, Turns out that in the directory where jikes.exe is, he had a
> directory named jikes also - make was trying to execute it, 
> but bash wasn't.
> 
> 
> So obviously, this is a bug in make - it must be looking for 
> a program named
> jikes before jikes.exe - I guess.  Either that, or it's not 
> checking to make
> sure it's a directory when it checks.  I don't mind tracking 
> this one down
> and submitting a bug fix, but I thought I ought to find out 
> if it's been
> heard of or fixed, etc.
 

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