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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>1995-10-04 18:15:35 +0000
committerRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>1995-10-04 18:15:35 +0000
commite1c593016bd338f80ec7d4e06ca923e810612d3a (patch)
tree9e4e69674c08c4f2b04af022322fbdf78271565c
parent10124ce95ba418aeab9ced63340fe40ef63da6fb (diff)
downloadgunmake-e1c593016bd338f80ec7d4e06ca923e810612d3a.tar.gz
Add note wrt broken system makes--use build.sh.
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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ build the program, type `sh build.sh'. This should compile the program
in the current directory. Then you will have a Make program that you can
use for `make install', or whatever else.
+Some systems' Make programs are broken and cannot process the Makefile for
+GNU Make. If you get errors from your system's Make when building GNU
+Make, try using `build.sh' instead.
+
It has been reported that the XLC 1.2 compiler on AIX 3.2 is buggy such
that if you compile make with `cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work correctly.
It is said that using `cc' without `-O' does work.