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I use the slackware 10.2 with make 3.80 and gcc 3.3.6. What version are you using? Maybe I need to update the make.

With 3.80 it breaks for me as well, 3.81 works. I need to do something about this anyway, so let me see...

Thank you , Adam. I update the make in my machine to 3.81. Now it is ok. cheng