Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:38:25 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: RSXIDE Make polls a-drive
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On 15 Jun 1999, P.B. Davis wrote:

> I have just migrated to a new (Win98) machine. DJGPP and RSXIDE work fine,
> but every time I press the RSXIDE Make button the a-drive light comes on
> briefly, whereupon everything continues as per normal.
> 
> Any suggestions for this strange behaviour?

Evidently, some program tries to access drive A:, for some reason.

However, you need to do some digging to find out what program is that.
From what you tell, it is not clear whether the offending program is
RSXIDE, Make, or some program invoked by Make as per the Makefile.
(Barring any knowledge of RSXIDE on my part, I'm assuming that its
MAKE button indeed invokes the Make utility which is a DJGPP port of
GNU Make.)

Some things I'd suggest to try:

  - does this happen when there's nothing to ``make''?
  - does this happen with an empty or trivial Makefile?
  - does it happen if you invoke Make from the command prompt?