From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <199902031758.SAA25724@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: make crash
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 18:58:52 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990203134236.29547h-100000@is> from Eli Zaretskii at "Feb 3, 99 01:43:18 pm"
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> 
> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> 
> > While trying to build tar from tar112s.zip I found out that make
> > promptly crashes:
> > 
> > bash$ make
> > make all-recursive
> > make.exe[1]: Entering directory `f:/hackery/libc/tar/gnu/tar-1.12'
> > g:/dj100000: g:/dj100000: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> > Abort!
> > Exiting due to signal SIGABRT
> 
> I cannot reproduce this on Windows 95.  I just tried.
> 
> Which Bash is that, btw?  I tried 1.14.7; if you use anything else,
> the problem might be in Bash (see that syntax error before the
> Abort?).

The environment variable BASH_VERSION is set to "1.14.7(1)".

> Also, did you compile Make by yourself, or is that the original binary
> from mak377b.zip?

The original one. I even compared it to the one in mak377b.zip with
diff. They are the same.


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							MartinS