From: rupp AT gnat DOT com (Douglas B. Rupp)
Message-Id: <9702040004.AA28942@nile.gnat.com>
Subject: Re: bash and make gnat1 (or cc1plus)
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 19:04:42 -0500 (EST)
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, rupp AT gnat DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <9702032347.AA28728@nile.gnat.com> from "Douglas B. Rupp" at Feb 3, 97 06:47:37 pm
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> 
> 3) Make can't find the files I patched, specifically builtins/history.def.
>    I don't understand this at all, I can list it with ls and dir.  THe name
>    is <8 characters, so that's not even an issue.  It's not hidden, the
>    date looks ok (not in the future).
> 
> The last problem has me stuck.
> 
> I think your right about this being a shell bug though.  That makes the

Sorry, it's not make, but the bash source build utility "mkbuiltins".  It
calls "stat()" and then "open()" on a long list of .def files passed
to it on the command line. Both functions fail to find the files that
are patched.  Very strange.