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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-08-21 03:05:11 (GMT)
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Add warning about dumb SGI make.
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@@ -289,6 +289,12 @@ Cray T3E: Konrad Hinsen writes:
If you run the test suite, two tests will fail (rotate and binascii),
but these are not the modules you'd expect to need on a Cray.
+SGI: SGI's standard "make" utility (/bin/make or /usr/bin/make)
+ does not check whether a command actually changed the file it
+ is supposed to build. This means that whenever you say "make"
+ it will redo the link step. The remedy is to use SGI's much
+ smarter "smake " utility (/usr/bin/smake), or GNU make.
+
Configuring additional built-in modules
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