[I hope, this is the right place to report hmake problems.]

Yes.

When hmake emits the message

Stop - hmake dependency error.

it does so to stdout. I think, it should go to stderr, as the current behaviour in combination with output redirection can be surprising.

Good point. Patch below. Regards, Malcolm Index: script/hmake.inst =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/src/master/nhc/script/hmake.inst,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -u -r1.19 hmake.inst --- script/hmake.inst 2001/06/15 13:21:24 1.19 +++ script/hmake.inst 2001/09/26 09:42:34 @@ -234,6 +234,6 @@ rm $TMP/hmake$$ exit $CODE ;; *) rm $TMP/hmake$$ - echo "Stop - hmake dependency error." + echo >&2 "Stop - hmake dependency error." exit $CODE ;; esac