On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Richard Cavell <richardcav...@mail.com> wrote: > 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. >
somethng strange about output of "make --print-database" I would not try to debug it, just get the latest make, see if it works (if not, post here again) and move forward to the interesting parts of life. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
