Hi Pedro,
When gmake calls gmake recursively, it passes on some options in
the command line to gmake. One of the options is "no-print-directory", which
tells gmake not to print information about the directories it is entering
and leaving. The correct option would read "--no-print-directory", but the
gmake on the HPs, for some reason pass this as "---no-print-directory".
This option as I understand is internal to gmake, and is probably specified
at install time. I am guessing it was a typo during the installation process.
But, I cannot confirm since I haven't installed gmake myself. But, I am
sure it will help if it is reinstalled. As for the SUNs they run an older
version of gmake which is not compatible with the version we are using, which
is 3.70.
-jk