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Bug 13512

Summary:	make cannot handle targets with path
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Gek <geksiong>
Component:	make	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2
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Hardware:	ia64
OS:	Linux
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Description Gek 2000-07-05 23:04:29 UTC

I have reason to believe that the make program supplied with the June build
of RedHat IA64 is unable to handle targets with names like
'subdir/outfile'. The usual behavior is to create 'subdir' if it does not
exist and output to 'outfile'. This version of make couldn't handle it and
exits with an error. It can create the directory but it will exit with
errors. Running make with debug on shows it lost the child process. A
temporary workaround in the make files is to create the directory first
before outputting to the file.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-07-22 13:20:54 UTC

My experience (and a search of make.info for subdir)  indicate no behavior of
make that automagically creates a subdir that is prefixed in a target. Can you
send a short example Makefile
that illustrates what you expect make to do on ia64? BTW, you might look for
make-3.79.1 as that is the latest version we are building on ia64.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-10-27 06:07:59 UTC

closed, lack of input.