Re: make

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 16 Jun 1996 17:04:29 +0100 (BST)

On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Anders Broberg wrote:
[...]
> Maybe someone could explain what made the old "make" stop working?
>

Yep, there was a bug in the libc (in the dirent function), which make
used (could be worked around), but anyway, this bug was fixed in
libc5.2.12-18 somewhere. Basically, the unintended behavior if the
dirent function of the libc, which make exploited was changed, braking
make (arguably make was already broken, but so was the libc so ...).

> //Anders Broberg
>
>
Bryn

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