Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:28:52 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ned Ulbricht <nedu AT ee DOT washington DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: make -n -f - orphans temp file
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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Ned Ulbricht wrote:

> make -n -f -
> target:
> 	+echo hello
> ^Z
> 
> orphans a file such as /djgpp/tmp/dj100000, which contains:

I have confirmed that this is a genuine GNU Make bug.  It should be
corrected in the next release of GNU Make (due out soon).  In the
meantime, if you need this to be corrected urgently, I can mail you a
source-level patch.

Thanks again for reporting this.