From 0078aaf950671ef5d1caf7374b49de96e0f37244 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 03:05:11 +0000 Subject: Add warning about dumb SGI make. --- README | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index a9499dc..64ecbdd 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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 --------------------------------------- -- cgit v0.12