Re: problems w/ make.

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> CC: <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:15:49 -0400
> 
> Hi all, and once again much thanks for the help. Unfortunately the issue is 
> not the path. I tried by just copying all the files to c:\netirc  and had the 
> same problem/. I've tried google but have not had any lck,.  Im also running 
> cygwin, do you think that mit be an issue?>?  

But the version of Make you are using is not the Cygwin Make, is it?

> multiple target paterns ?! WTF ?!  never seen that before. 

It's described in the manual.

> > First, are you absolutely sure we are looking at the right Makefile?
> > Is there any other Makefile with more than 306 lines that could
> > trigger this error message?  And why the error message now complains
> > about line 306, whereas your original report was about line 308?
> > 
> > Second, could you please post a minimal Makefile that reproduces this
> > problem, without depending on the entire Net::IRC build environment?
> > For example, I attach below a small Makefile that is a modified
> > version of the portion of your Makefile around the line 308, with the
> > addition of definitions of several Make macros (at the beginning of
> > the Makefile) that are needed to make it self-contained.  This small
> > Makefile works for me with Make 3.81.
> > [...]
> > With these changes, the short Makefile below correctly created the
> > directories and files it is supposed to make, and I never saw any
> > error messages about multiple patterns.  Can you see if it works for
> > you?

You never answered those questions.