Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:09:08 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug in make?
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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

> make -f m2.mak
> make.exe[1]: Entering directory `c:/980127/new/new/9901/mail/pp'
> E:\DJ\BIN/make.exe -f m3.mak
> make.exe[1]: *** [pepe.c] Error -1
> make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `c:/980127/new/new/9901/mail/pp'
> make.exe: *** [pepe.c] Error 2

I think I solved this (at least the toy example posted by Salvador
works now).  But I would like to give the patched version an extensive
testing, to be sure I didn't break anything.  The best test cases are
complex Makefiles, both those which require Bash and those which
don't, and which use backslashes in rules.

So please try this version and report results to me.  You can get the
patched version in two ways:

  - if you have the Make sources, ask me for a source-level patch;
  - or you can download a binary from ftp://is.elta.co.il/pub/make.exe

(The patches and the binary include a couple of other improvements,
but you shouldn't notice them, as they handle very rare cases.)

Thanks in advance.