On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 14:49 +0100, Jon Grant wrote:
I just ran make check and got 33 failures. I'm running make 3.81, on a
6 month old Ubuntu Linux install.
They are all the same issue, the extra space. Not sure where the extra
space comes from, is anyone else seeing this?
Please be sure
Enclosed is the makefile from LPRng.
I minimized it.
It works on 3.80.
On 3.81, it only works if you specify SHELL=bourne shell on
the command line...
I've run this on a number of machines -- then I figured
try remake and it worked -- then I realized remake was 3.80...
There's a line
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 23:05 -0400, Marty Leisner wrote:
There's a line
SHELL=/bin/sh
in the makefile...
This is illegal.
Make is not the shell; it does not strip quotes like the shell does.
Quoting is not harmless in make. These two variables:
FOO = A
BAR = A
are very
