[Leaplist] GNU make problem ....

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

Maybe it would help if we saw the Makefile. Please try to show just the
relevant sections if it's long.
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On Sat, February 17, 2007 12:39 pm, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
> .... I am trying to compile some inhouse code on a newly constructed
> Opteron 165 box, running FC6-x86_64. I am having a small problem with
> make, as follows:
>
> [wam at Opty165A, Utils, 11:27:59am] 639 % make clean
> removing ALL libutils.a (!!!!) .... done.
> [wam at Opty165A, Utils, 11:28:02am] 640 % (ll ../lib/)
> total 8
> drwx------ 2 wam users 4096 Feb 17 11:28 debug/
> [wam at Opty165A, Utils, 11:29:39am] 641 % make
> ../lib/libutils.a up to date.
> [wam at Opty165A, Utils, 11:29:43am] 642 % make -v
> GNU Make 3.81
> Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> This program built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
> [wam at Opty165A, Utils, 11:29:49am] 643 %
>
>
> i.e., make doesn't remake the offending file even though it doesn't exist.
> I am using makefiles copied from my 2.4 GHz P4, which is under the weather
> as usual :-\ .... The makefiles worked AOK there (whenever the machine
> worked). Is this a known problem w/ this version of make, or this
> combination of make/Linux version ? BTW, uname -a gives:
>
> [wam at Opty165A, Utils, 11:29:49am] 643 % uname -a
> Linux Opty165A 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:39:22 EDT 2006
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [wam at Opty165A, Utils, 11:36:27am] 644 %
>
> TIA as usual ....
>
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>
> 	William A. Mahaffey III
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