From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Make returns -1?
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 19:00:24 -0500
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Lucas Panian wrote:
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> I tried 'make'ing a makefile (well, duh...), and it returned -1 (box.o), or
> something of the like. I have no idea what this means, and after refering
> to info, I found that make only returns 0, 1 or 2....How can that be? Oh
> well. I've been having lots'a trouble with make, and it's getting
> irritating. Anybody know what an exit code of -1 means?

Please capture the exact output of 'make' and post it here; simply
knowing that it returns with -1 doesn't help much.  Usually, -1
indicates some sort of runtime error, like a crash or user break.  Use
the following command:

   redir -o make.out -eo make

Then post the file named 'make.out'.

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