From: Guido van Rossum Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 03:05:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add warning about dumb SGI make. X-Git-Tag: v1.5a4~340 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0078aaf950671ef5d1caf7374b49de96e0f37244;p=python Add warning about dumb SGI make. --- diff --git a/README b/README index a9499dc22f..64ecbdd8eb 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 ---------------------------------------