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| In addition, there have been bugs fixed. |
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| section of the GNU make manual entitled `Problems and Bugs' for |
| information on submitting useful and complete bug reports. |
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| repository: it is not unheard of for code that is known to be broken to |
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| System-specific Notes |
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| It has been reported that the XLC 1.2 compiler on AIX 3.2 is buggy such |
| that if you compile make with `cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work |
| correctly. It is said that using `cc' without `-O' does work. |
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| The standard /bin/sh on SunOS 4.1.3_U1 and 4.1.4 is broken and cannot be |
| used to configure GNU make. Please install a different shell such as |
| bash or pdksh in order to run "configure". See this message for more |
| information: |
| http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00190.html |
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| One area that is often a problem in configuration and porting is the code |
| to check the system's current load average. To make it easier to test and |
| debug this code, you can do `make check-loadavg' to see if it works |
| properly on your system. (You must run `configure' beforehand, but you |
| need not build Make itself to run this test.) |
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| Another potential source of porting problems is the support for large |
| files (LFS) in configure for those operating systems that provide it. |
| Please report any bugs that you find in this area. If you run into |
| difficulties, then as a workaround you should be able to disable LFS by |
| adding the `--disable-largefile' option to the `configure' script. |
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| On systems that support micro- and nano-second timestamp values and |
| where stat(2) provides this information, GNU make will use it when |
| comparing timestamps to get the most accurate possible result. However, |
| note that many current implementations of tools that *set* timestamps do |
| not preserve micro- or nano-second granularity. This means that "cp -p" |
| and other similar tools (tar, etc.) may not exactly duplicate timestamps |
| with micro- and nano-second granularity on some systems. If your build |
| system contains rules that depend on proper behavior of tools like "cp |
| -p", you should consider using the .LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME pseudo-target to |
| force make to treat them properly. See the manual for details. |
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| Ports |
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| - See README.customs for details on integrating GNU make with the |
| Customs distributed build environment from the Pmake distribution. |
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| - See readme.vms for details about GNU Make on OpenVMS. |
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| - See README.Amiga for details about GNU Make on AmigaDOS. |
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| - See README.W32 for details about GNU Make on Windows NT, 95, or 98. |
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| - See README.DOS for compilation instructions on MS-DOS and MS-Windows |
| using DJGPP tools. |
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| A precompiled binary of the MSDOS port of GNU Make is available as part |
| of DJGPP; see the WWW page http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ for more |
| information. |
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| Please note there are two _separate_ ports of GNU make for Microsoft |
| systems: a native Windows tool built with (for example) MSVC or Cygwin, |
| and a DOS-based tool built with DJGPP. Please be sure you are looking |
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