On Jun 12,  7:07am, enami@but-b.or.jp (enami tsugutomo) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/13166: recent make(1) fails to make depend in egcs/f771

| > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:10:50 GMT
| > From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
| > 
| > Have you tried 'make cleandir' in gnu/usr.bin/egcs/f771; I just tried the
| > 'make depend' and it worked for me.
| 
| As I wrote in the PR, if make is invoked after changing into the
| directory egcs/f771, it works.  It doesn't work if make is initially
| invoked in other directory, i.e., gnu/usr.bin/egcs or gnu/usr.bin or
| gnu or top direcoty.  It fails after descend into the directory f771.

So there is some variable passing that did not used to happen that breaks it?

christos