Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <9F481A71957AD111BB2300805FE65D2504749D32@mpisex02.mops.wl.com> From: "Brown, Kim" To: "'Blob, Dave'" , "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" Subject: RE: Problem with make Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:43:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I have found GNU make to be buggy with some makefiles, especially those generated by PERL install packages. I just use nmake from microsoft without problems. Anyone else have problems with GNU make? > > Ok, this is a wierd one, so bear with me. > > I've been using cygwin to do some java development with a > coworker. For a > while, we were just doing "jikes *.java", and had no problems. As the > project grew, we split things into packages and added > Makefiles to build the > whole project. The problem that showed up was that it worked > for me, but > not for him - he'd get an error message each time that said "jikes - > permission denied". The same command that make was trying to > execute worked > from the command line though... Perplexing. We switched to > javac - worked > fine. > > Anyhow, Turns out that in the directory where jikes.exe is, he had a > directory named jikes also - make was trying to execute it, > but bash wasn't. > > > So obviously, this is a bug in make - it must be looking for > a program named > jikes before jikes.exe - I guess. Either that, or it's not > checking to make > sure it's a directory when it checks. I don't mind tracking > this one down > and submitting a bug fix, but I thought I ought to find out > if it's been > heard of or fixed, etc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com