Problems with SCO UNIX on NFS mounted non-System-V filesystems

[Ken Lerman]

In article <1990Dec20.082120.3297 at glance.ch> David Mosberger <david at vichy.glance.ch> writes:
->We are encountering an annoying problem when we try to use some utilities
->distributed with SCO ODT 1.0. For example, if we try to `make' a program
->on an NFS mounted ULTRIX filesystem the command terminates with the message:
->
->		`Make: don't know how to make cio.o'
->
->Similarly, if we install manual pages on he ULTRIX system, the `man' command
->doesn't find the manual pages (although MANPATH was set correctly.
->This problem does not show up as long as the NFS mounted filesystem is a
->System V.3 filesystem.
->
->Did anyone else have the same experiences and is the problem solved in
->the new UNIX (or coming ODT 1.1) release?
->
->Any information is appreciated!
->
->	--dave
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The make problem has been reported to SCO and a fix is available.  It
has not been fixed in 3.2.2 even though it was reported (by me) in
April or May.  The fix consists of a new version of make.

My guess is that the problem has to do with reading remote directories
and probably shows up on other utilities as well.

When I first reported the bug, SCO wanted a simple test case.  I gave them:
  cd /nfs/remote/direct
  touch foo.c
  make foo.o
which fails with `Make: don't know how to make cio.o'
  cd localdir
  touch foo.c
  make foo.o
which compiles foo.c

Ken