Re: Error when using example from Mecklenburg book

[carl hansen]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Richard Cavell <address@hidden> wrote:
>    Attached.
>
>    Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 12:32 AM
>    From: "carl hansen" <address@hidden>
>    To: "Richard Cavell" <address@hidden>
>    Cc: "Make List" <address@hidden>
>    Subject: Re: Error when using example from Mecklenburg book
>    On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Richard Cavell
>    <address@hidden> wrote:
>    something
>    >
>    can you do
>    echo "this is nonsense" | grep nonsense
>    ?
>    make --print-data-base -n | grep something
>    ?
>    I am under impression that Mac sh is not working completely for you,
>    thus my questions.
>    The real answer is download the latest "make" precompiled from one
>    of several sites, sorry, haven't turned on the Mac in recent decades,
>    I don't know the name of website, and just use that.
>

somethng strange about output of "make --print-database"
I would not try to debug it,
just get the latest make, see if it works (if not, post here again)
and move forward to the interesting parts of life.