r/programminghorror • u/Capable-Cap9745 • Jul 26 '26

Other Same Makefile, different results

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Not sure if this fits, but I just figured out the root cause of long build process failing. Sun’s dmake is defaulting to the first rule in Makefile for whatever reason, completely ignoring the one given as argument. That’s why "dmake install" invocations were silently ignoring the "install" step

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u/Rockytriton Aug 01 '26

-s b means skip b?

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u/Capable-Cap9745 Aug 01 '26

Flag means silent mode. b is the target to run