From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
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.
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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
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