Applied.
>
> >From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> >
> >Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >>>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../../../doc/src/sgml/ref/*.sgml',
> >>>> needed
> >>>> by `sql_help.h'. Stop.
> >>>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/pgsql/src/bin/psql'
> >
> >>> Do you have sgml files in that directory? You should.
> >
> >> Plenty of them...
> >>
> >> directory. Not the usual sort of thing you see in makefiles.
> >
> >
> >This makefile coding does depend on wildcard expansion in dependency
> >lists, which is a GNU-make ism that probably doesn't get a lot of
> >testing. What version of make are you running?
> >
> >It might be worth changing the rule to use explicit wildcard expansion,
> >
> >sql_help.h: $(wildcard ../../../doc/src/sgml/ref/*.sgml) create_help.pl
> >
> >in case some versions of make need that extra cue to do the right thing...
> >
>
> My make is :-
>
> bash-2.03$ make --version
> GNU Make version 3.77, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
> Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98
>
> so it's fairly recent. ( binary dist from the sunfreeware site. )
>
> Your suggestion above fixes the problem so it might as well be
> included in the official makefile.
>
> *** src/bin/psql/Makefile.in.orig Sun Nov 7 10:39:26 1999
> --- src/bin/psql/Makefile.in Sun Nov 7 10:40:30 1999
> ***************
> *** 46,52 ****
> help.o: sql_help.h
>
> ifneq ($(strip $(PERL)),)
> ! sql_help.h: ../../../doc/src/sgml/ref/*.sgml create_help.pl
> $(PERL) create_help.pl sql_help.h
> else
> sql_help.h:
> --- 46,52 ----
> help.o: sql_help.h
>
> ifneq ($(strip $(PERL)),)
> ! sql_help.h: $(wildcard ../../../doc/src/sgml/ref/*.sgml) create_help.pl
> $(PERL) create_help.pl sql_help.h
> else
> sql_help.h:
>
>
> Further testing shows that make fails in this case but is OK in others.
>
> bash-2.03$ cat Makefile2
> tmplist: /tmp/*
> ls /tmp > tmplist
> bash-2.03$ make -f Makefile2
> ls /tmp > tmplist
>
>
> I've just downloaded the source for GNU make 3.78.1 and built myself.
> This version makes the above problem case without problems.
>
>
> Keith.
>
> I'm ccing this to steve@smc.vnet.net for info.
>
> Steve, This was the version I had installed.
>
> % pkginfo -l -d ./make-3.77-sol7-sparc-local
> PKGINST: SMCmake
> NAME: make
> CATEGORY: application
> ARCH: sparc
> VERSION: 3.77
> BASEDIR: /usr/local
> VENDOR: Free Software Foundation
> PSTAMP: Steve Christensen
> EMAIL: steve@smc.vnet.net
> STATUS: spooled
> FILES: 52 spooled pathnames
> 6 directories
> 1 executables
> 2 package information files
> 4633 blocks used (approx)
>
>
>
>
> ************
>
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