Is this a make bug or a make feature?
Joseph S. D. Yao
jsdy at hadron.UUCP
Tue May 7 14:46:41 AEST 1985
> > cpp: $(OBJS)
> > lint: $(SRCS)
> >
> > If the source files are kept under sccs and the .c's aren't kept around,
> > life gets difficult. Even though cpp is the target, make thinks that
> > it needs the source files since the (potential) lint target requires them.
>
> That's a bug in your version of "make".
If it is, it's a fairly common bug. Many (perhaps older) versions of
make do the same. Support for SCCS didn't really appear until System
III.
Joe Yao hadron!jsdy at seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}
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