[pups] 2.11 BSD compilation fails

[Mark Green]

> 
> While tinkering with the date2.c program posted earlier by Alex
> Chupakhin, which now runs on 2.11 BSD btw, I discovered the following:
> 
> - 'cc -o date2 date2.c' works fine, producing a 12K binary
> 
> - a makefile containing this command fails - the compilation starts but
> fails silently, producing a 2K binary that is not marked executable. 
> The makefile is:
> 
>    date2: date2.c
>            cc -o date2 -c date2.c 
Remove the -c flag, it tells the compiler to only compile the program
and not produce an executable.

> 
> - 'make -n | sh' fails in the same way
> 


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