Debian bug report logs - #864 make gets MAKEFLAGS wrong Package: make ; Reported by: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson); 176 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cus.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Tue Jun 13 11:26:04 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sLaf5-00064uC; Tue, 13 Jun 95 11:26 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA29937 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Tue, 13 Jun 1995 11:24:33 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sLaex-000C0EC; Tue, 13 Jun 95 19:25 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.32); Tue, 13 Jun 95 18:38 BST Message-Id: Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 18:38 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: jdassen@WI.LeidenUniv.NL (J.H.M.Dassen), Debian bugs submission address Subject: Bug#864: Re: smail-3.1.29-1: ambiguous switch for 'make' In-Reply-To: <199506131138.NAA17674@sp2156a.wi.leidenuniv.nl> References: <199506131138.NAA17674@sp2156a.wi.leidenuniv.nl> J. H. M. Dassen writes ("smail-3.1.29-1: ambiguous switch for 'make'"): > it looks like one of the options given to make while building smail-3.1.29-1 > is ambiguous when using make-3.73, resulting in a failing build. > > While making the dependencies, make is called with '--wn'; make --help > shows no option matching this. > Options starting with '--w' are: '--what-if=FILE' and > '--warn-undefined-variables'. > > Could you disambiguate this for the next release? This is a bug (Debian #864) in GNU make's handling of MAKEFLAGS. The option should have been -wn with only a single hyphen. I'm using my own copy of make 3.70 in /usr/local/bin. This should be fixed urgently, as currently a Debian user can't (re)compile the Smail package. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#864 ; Package make . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cus.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Mon May 8 10:49:08 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0s8Wvb-0006CNC; Mon, 8 May 95 10:49 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA29577 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 8 May 1995 10:47:41 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0s8TYd-000C1bC; Mon, 8 May 95 15:13 BST Received: by chiark id m0s8H5i-0000XQZ (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.30); Mon, 8 May 95 01:54 BST Message-Id: Date: Mon, 8 May 95 01:54 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Debian bugs submission address Subject: make gets MAKEFLAGS wrong Package: make Version: 3.73-1 When trying to build smail (3.1.29.1-11, source code will be on ftp.cps soon) I get: make: option `--w' is ambiguous numerous times, with usage messages. I seem to remember this being due to an incompatible and broken change in the semantics of MAKEFLAGS. Please can this change be reversed, or the old `make' restored. In the meantime I'll have to build Smail with my old installation's make. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#864 ; Package make . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov