problems with make on a sun4

[Sid Cowles]

i have had a lot of trouble using make on a sun4; it is currently using
version 4.0 of the operating system.  the problem is:  all code is under
sccs; make will not pull the header files as needed (eg. s.*.h).  the
makefile i'm using works fine on a sun3; but not on the 4.  

the default rule list on the 4 does indeed include no rule for getting .h
files from s.*.h that i have found.  to work around this, i've tried (1)
including my own set of complete rules in my makefile (2) concatenating
the sun4 default make definitions (/usr/lib/make/default.mk) and my
makefile and specifying the -r option, and (3) using the rule list from a
sun3 with my makefile and specifying -r on the make invocation.  none of
these attempts have worked.  it almost seems to me that the sun4 is
ignoring any user provided rules.  does anyone have any workaround?

thanks,
sid

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