Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 13:32:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Tate <FIXER AT FAXCSL DOT DCRT DOT NIH DOT GOV>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Recursive Make problems

A colleague and I are having frustrating problems with a Make configuration
that relies on using a recursive invocation of Make to build a library,
which is later linked into the final application.

On my system, it's fine.  The recursive Make works fine.  However, on
his system, the "$(MAKE) --directory=ncbi/core --file=core.m" command
gets echoed by Make (showing d:/djgpp/bin/make.exe as the Make executable
being run), and then a [-1] error is reported.  This looks like a general
failure code.

The recursive Make never says "entering directory ....", so it's not
getting that far.  We've had problems trying to use CD commands in
makefiles before; it may be related.

Does *anyone* know what's going on here?  My colleague has *more* DOS
memory available than I do, so that's unlikely to be the problem.

-- Chris Tate
   fixer AT faxcsl DOT dcrt DOT nih DOT gov