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Why does make report that libgw.a etc. are missing under Sun Solaris?

April 26, 2017MISSING report Solaris Sun

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Why does make report that libgw.a etc. are missing under Sun Solaris?

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On each occasion that this has come up on the devel mailing list, the problem is that Sun’s make has been used rather than GNU make. I would recommend that you get the latest version from ftp.gnu.org or your local mirror. If you want to check which make you are using, try the command “which make”. if the response is “/usr/xpg4/bin/make” or “/usr/ccs/bin/make” then you are using Sun’s make. If the response is “/usr/local/bin/make” or “/opt/sfw/bin/make” then you are probably using GNU make. GNU make responds correctly to “make –version”, Sun’s make reports that it is ignoring DistributedMake options.