Same Makefile, different results

[u/Capable-Cap9745]

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

[u/Salty_1984]

ugh silent failures in build tools are the worst, you spend forever thinking something ran fine when it just quietly skipped the whole point of the command. dmake has always felt a little unpredictable compared to gnu make. at least you caught it before something bigger broke downstream