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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:18:43 +0000
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Subject: Bug in make?
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Hi all!

  I don't use make too much but as people uses it I'm giving the option to
compile my editor with make, but I found the following problem, and I think
that's a bug:

Suppose I have:

------------- m1.mak
pepe.c:
	make -f m2.mak
--------------------
------------- m2.mak
pepe.c:
	$(MAKE) -f m3.mak
--------------------
------------- m3.mak
pepe.c:
	cp delete.me pepe.c
--------------------

Now with delete.me in this directory if I execute "make -f m1.mak" I get:

--------------------
make -f m2.mak
make.exe[1]: Entering directory `c:/980127/new/new/9901/mail/pp'
E:\DJ\BIN/make.exe -f m3.mak
make.exe[1]: *** [pepe.c] Error -1
make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `c:/980127/new/new/9901/mail/pp'
make.exe: *** [pepe.c] Error 2
--------------------

Now lets fix it using:
------------- m1.mak
pepe.c:
	$(MAKE) -f m2.mak
--------------------

And then I get:

--------------------
e:/dj/bin/make.exe -f m2.mak
make.exe[1]: Entering directory `c:/980127/new/new/9901/mail/pp'
e:/dj/bin/make.exe -f m3.mak
make.exe[2]: Entering directory `c:/980127/new/new/9901/mail/pp'
cp delete.me pepe.c
make.exe[2]: Leaving directory `c:/980127/new/new/9901/mail/pp'
make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `c:/980127/new/new/9901/mail/pp'
--------------------

Even when the solution is just be coherent and use $(MAKE) in all the places:

1) It works in Linux.
2) I don't see why "E:\DJ\BIN/make.exe -f m3.mak" should fail.
3) The variable should be expanded with forward slashes.

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