12 Mar
2020
12 Mar
'20
7:18 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 2:43 AM Rich Alderson via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
From: David Griffith
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 2:41 AM
Maybe he's running the native one? The error message suggests that may be
the case.
Warner
Instead of using a badly ported Unix program, you ought to learn to build
I've successfully managed to get a simulated
TOPS20 environment going
with
networking. Now there's a new strange hitch:
the behavior of make.
Would
someone please look at this and tell me what
I'm doing wrong?
For a simple Makefile, it works fine if I just
type "make", but if I type
"make <target>", I get the commands sent to the command line, but no
responses. The display then stalls at the eighth source file.
Strangely, if
I scroll up in the xterm, it gets dragged back
down as if more stuff is
being
printed.
"make" is not native to TOPS-20, and is unknown to the vast majority of
TOPS-20
programmers. The best thing to do is to get the source for make and run it
under DDT to see where it's failing to perform as you expect, and fix it
yourself.
It is unfortunate that Unix make was ever ported to TOPS-20, because there
was
already a MAKE command which invoked TECO with an empty buffer. This is
the
source of the joke response to "MAKE LOVE"; it has nothing to do with your
issue with the Unix program.
TOPS-20 control files and do your compiles that way.
Just my $0.02.
Rich