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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:21:32 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Make 3.78 is in pretest
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On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I can send you a compiled binary of Make 3.77.92, if you want.

Please do.

> It is possible that this is due to a subtle bug in `system' from the v2.02 
> library, it was known to crash Make in some cases.

Maybe, but this could also be unreated.  I'll post the traceback of the
crash, if that helps to determine whether this is the case.

> Thanks.  Are these changes safe for Unix?

Yes, at least AFAIK.  BTW, the variable $osname is set to empty string
on DJGPP, while it's set correctly on Unix, and I don't understand why.
Could this be a problem with our port of Perl?

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/