GNU make 3.80 on HP-UX 11.11

[Allen Suski]

Hi there,

Approximately 1 month ago, I downloaded the source for GNU make 3.80 from
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/make-3.80/ on a fresh install of HP-UX
11.11 and attempted to build the package.  All worked well till I performed
'make test' and received the following error

options/dash-t .......................................... Error running
/usr/local/src/make-3.80/tests/../make (256):
/usr/local/src/make-3.80/tests/../make -f work/options/dash-t.mk -t final-a
final-b
FAILED

So instead I downloaded the compiled depot, extracted the compiled
executable, placed it in the source directory and low it passed all the
tests. As I was in a hurry to use gmake, I decided to perform the install
with the executable and ignore the problem.

Today I thought it would be edifying to research the above problem (knowing
that before the package is uploaded to the HP-UX software archive some
changes are made to some of the files).
I first found that ./configure (modified for use at the archive) hard coded
to 'cc' which, on my machine is the HP Bundled C compiler located in
/usr/ccs/bin. Basically after some fiddling I found that it will build and
check correctly when compiled with gcc 3.4.3 but fails the '-t' test when
compiled using the cc_bundled.

So then I went directly to the gnu source and performed similar test with
the same results.

Just thought you should know.

Allen



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