This is a known bug in 3.77. 3.79 is the current version, you really need to
update.
-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun
http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lewis 425-865-3510 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 10:07 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: does gnumake 3.77 wildcard work under solaris 2.6?
>
>
> We're trying to use the wildcard function in gnumake, and
> find that it produces nothing. The goal is to produce
> a list of the .o files that should be checked against all the
> .f files in a directory, as directly from page 18 of the 3.77
> manual (and as of some earlier versions of gnumake that worked).
>
> "Making" with the attached Makefile in a directory with more
> than a dozen .f files produces the following output:
>
> % gnumake
> echo
>
> echo
>
> echo
>
> echo
>
>
> The old syntax (from an earlier gnumake) we think omitted the
> colon in the := assignment. We tried that too with the same results.
>
> Here's the Makefile. Any thoughts for us?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Lewis
> ---------------- cut here -------------
> OBJECTS := $(patsubst %.f, %.o, $(wildcard *.f))
>
> TESTOBJ := $(patsubst %.f,%.o,$(wildcard *.f))
>
> test:
> echo $($(wildcard *.f))
> echo $(wildcard *.f)
> echo $(TESTOBJ)
> echo $(OBJECTS)
>
>
>
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