[clean-list] Clean on (Debian) Linux

Martin Wierich martinw@cs.kun.nl
Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:43:16 +0200


Hi Arnout

hotpop wrote:
> This tarball has a Makefile, however issuing 'make' only returns the following
> error message:
> make: read.c:892: read_makefile: Assertion `*p2 != '\0'' failed.
> Aborted

This is a bug in the make program (the make program should definitely not abort). It won't happen if you upgrade your
make program to the latest version (make-3.79.1) which you can get from any GNU ftp server.

cheers
  Martin Wierich
  University of Nijmegen