Attached. Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 12:32 AM From: "carl hansen" <carlhansen1...@gmail.com> To: "Richard Cavell" <richardcav...@mail.com> Cc: "Make List" <help-make@gnu.org> Subject: Re: Error when using example from Mecklenburg book On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Richard Cavell <richardcav...@mail.com> wrote: something > can you do echo "this is nonsense" | grep nonsense ? make --print-data-base -n | grep something ? I am under impression that Mac sh is not working completely for you, thus my questions. The real answer is download the latest "make" precompiled from one of several sites, sorry, haven't turned on the Mac in recent decades, I don't know the name of website, and just use that.
Richards-MacBook-Pro:test2 richard$ echo "this is nonsense" | grep nonsense this is nonsense Richards-MacBook-Pro:test2 richard$ make --print-data-base -n | grep something make[55]: /bin/sh: Resource temporarily unavailable make[55]: *** wait: No child processes. Stop. make[55]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[55]: *** wait: No child processes. Stop. Richards-MacBook-Pro:test2 richard$ make --print-data-base -n | grep CC make[55]: /bin/sh: Resource temporarily unavailable make[55]: *** wait: No child processes. Stop. make[55]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[55]: *** wait: No child processes. Stop. LINK.o = $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(TARGET_ARCH) CC = cc CPP = $(CC) -E YACC = yacc YACC.m = $(YACC) $(YFLAGS) YACC.y = $(YACC) $(YFLAGS) LINK.S = $(CC) $(ASFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(TARGET_MACH) LINK.c = $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(TARGET_ARCH) LINK.s = $(CC) $(ASFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(TARGET_MACH) PREPROCESS.S = $(CC) -E $(CPPFLAGS) COMPILE.S = $(CC) $(ASFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(TARGET_MACH) -c COMPILE.c = $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(TARGET_ARCH) -c # SCCS: could not be stat'd. $(YACC.y) $< $(YACC.y) $< $(YACC.m) $< $(GET) $(GFLAGS) $(SCCS_OUTPUT_OPTION) $< %:: SCCS/s.% $(GET) $(GFLAGS) $(SCCS_OUTPUT_OPTION) $< $(YACC.y) $< $(YACC.m) $< $(YACC.y) $< Richards-MacBook-Pro:test2 richard$
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