Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:05:43 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ned Ulbricht <nedu AT ee DOT washington DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: make -n -f - orphans temp file
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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Ned Ulbricht wrote:

> make -n -f -
> target:
> 	+echo hello
> ^Z
> 
> orphans a file such as /djgpp/tmp/dj100000, which contains:
> 
> target:
> 	+echo hello
> d:/djgpp/tmp/dj100000:;

Thanks for reporting this.  This is indeed a bug, and one that is
easy to correct.  But I want to talk to the GNU Make maintainer first,
as it seems to me this is a genuine bug in the original Unix version.