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From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish
Date: 14 Aug 1995 14:47:06 -0700
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Bennett Todd <bet@ritz.mordor.com> wrote:
>Suns, both under SunOS 4.x and Solaris 2.x, say
>
>	make: *** No rule to make target `love'.  Stop.

Heck, *ANY* UNIX box will say that if you use GNU "make"; blame that one
on the GNU folk, not Sun.

The "make" that comes with SunOS 4.x and SunOS 5.x says:

	make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `love'

so *that's* the one you can blame on Sun.

>For fun one afternoon I hacked make to
>offer the TECO behavior. I special-cased the error-reporting, so everything
>would work unchanged if you had a [mM]akefile with a target "love".

Work unchanged, or say

	Not war?

first?  You *did* say "the TECO behavior".... :-)