[8477] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.3P: make
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 25 17:42:29 1991
From: cfields@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 17:42:18 EDT
System name: get-a-life
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.3P
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
build a binary
What's wrong:
I didn't have read access to the makefile (some weirdness
happened with AFS, I don't know what), and had just updated
a source file. So doing a "make foo" resulted in make
responding with "`foo' is up to date," which I knew was
untrue.
What should have happened:
Make should have told me it couldn't read the makefile,
instead of saying `foo' is up to date.
It also does this if there is no makefile. I am not sure
whether to call this a bug, though.
-->cd /
-->make vmunix
`vmunix' is up to date.
