Re: Is this a 'make' bug?

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Max Okumoto wrote:

> walt wrote:
> > ...I don't see a way to rebuild libc, do you?

> Ack... since make is static you might be able to recover by
> gutting /usr/src/usr.bin/make/Makefile and have it just copy
> your working version of make.
>
> PROG=   make
> CC=    /bin/cp /your/working/copy/of/mak/make.safe ${.TARGET}; echo junk
>
> .include <bsd.prog.mk>

I tried this and it failed with the same missing '(' errors.  So I just
copied the critical directories from a snapshot CD and then everything
re-compiled perfectly from today's CURRENT/DEVELOPMENT sources.

The good news is that this was *not* a 'make' bug!  (I had you
worried for a minute, though  ;o)