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When make concats a variable defined in one makefile with a variable defined in another makefile and the 2nd variable starts with a / it parses incorrectly. Example: In file "Rules" this variable is defined A=outputdirectory in makefile in directory "subdirs" this is defined B=/test the makefile in the subdir directory has the line include ../Rules in Rules there is this target all:: @echo $(A)$(B) the expected output is outputdirectory/test the actual output is /testtdirectory I have tar files which setup and demonstrate the minimal set of files required to reproduce this bug. I can be reached at gregb@kes.com if you would like these files. This bug has been tested with kernel 2.2.9 and 2.2.11 The 2.2.9 installation was from the Mandrake distribution of Red Hat Linux 6.0. The 2.2.11 kernel was simply a download form www.kernel.org and a recompile. This bug is making it impossible for our make files to work in a cross platform enviornment that includes Linux. We have them working on NT running the Cygnus bash shell and on Solaris. Give me an e-mail if I can be of any help at all. Certainly , I can at least give you the tar files that demonstrate this bug. Just let me know and I'll help out in any way except programming :-) I have too much of that to do here at work. Have a great day. Greg
Found a hidden control character in our make files (a ^M) that is causing the problem. Oddly enough the java editor we were using was adding it consistently so all our test had the same problem. Close it out