what version of gmake do you have?

mcmahill@ampere 21 # gmake --version
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for mipsel--netbsd
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Report bugs to <bug-make@gnu.org>.


-Dan


On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:

> It compiles correctly on my NetBSD-current/i386.  The errors it shows
> below indicate that it is remaking the same Makefile over and over
> again.  I'm not sure how to debug this remotely.
> 
> Sorry :(
> 
>      -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
>         Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
>         http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/
> 
> mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu writes:
> > so it looks like the recent changes to lesstif broke it.  both 1.4.2
> > sparc and pmax enter an infinite loop....:
> > 
> > 
> > Making all in Xm-2.1
> > gmake[2]: Entering directory
> > `/usr/build/pkgsrc/x11/lesstif/work.mipsel/lesstif-0.91.4/lib/Xm-2.1'
> > :
> > cd ../.. \
> >   && CONFIG_FILES=lib/Xm-2.1/Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh
> > ./config.status
> > creating lib/Xm-2.1/Makefile
> > gmake[2]: Leaving directory
> > `/usr/build/pkgsrc/x11/lesstif/work.mipsel/lesstif-0.91.4/lib/Xm-2.1'
> > gmake[2]: Entering directory
> > `/usr/build/pkgsrc/x11/lesstif/work.mipsel/lesstif-0.91.4/lib/Xm-2.1'
> > ...
>