A makefile containing the following (this is not the complete makefile...)

all: ${TOP_LIBDIR}/libafsrpc.a

libafsrpc.a: ${LIBOBJS}
        $(RM) -f $@
        $(AR) crv $@ ${LIBOBJS}
        $(RANLIB) $@
        case "${SYS_NAME}" in \
            rs_aix*) \
                $(AR) crv $@ ../sys/afsl.exp;; \
        esac

${TOP_LIBDIR}/libafsrpc.a: libafsrpc.a
        ${INSTALL} $? $@

has the following behaavior if make is invoked when the library is up to date
(this is a subset of the make -d lmv output):

Examining libafsrpc.a...modified 15:22:39 Mar 05, 2002...library.../ modified 15:22:38 Mar 05, 2002...up-to-date.
Examining /usr/home/cg2v/openafs/lib/libafsrpc.a...modified 15:22:39 Mar 05, 2002...library.../ modified 15:22:38 Mar 05, 2002...out-of-date.
/usr/home/cg2v/openafs/lib/libafsrpc.a:> = libafsrpc.a
/usr/home/cg2v/openafs/lib/libafsrpc.a:? = 
/usr/home/cg2v/openafs/src/pinstall/pinstall  /usr/home/cg2v/openafs/lib/libafsrpc.a
Not enough file names
*** Error code 1

The obvious work around is to use $< or $> in the rule instead of $?, but that
isn't workable in this case since some older makes don't impliment those.

I can't be sure that nothing else changed, but I believe that this problem did
not affect my FreeBSD 4.4 system

How-To-Repeat:         I tried to produce a minimal makefile that triggered the problem, but
I was unable to come up with something simple that did not work. The actual
makefile that triggers the problem comes from openafs. A version that otherwise
compiles on freebsd is available here:

http://grand.central.org/dl/openafs/1.3.1/openafs-1.3.1-src.tar.bz2