Problem in HP-UX compiling

Hi

When im trying to do make --version and make --help in HP-UX

it throws error
Make: Unknown flag argument -. Stop.

a soft link is present in this directory /usr/bin/make
and hard link is in /usr/ccs/bin/make

what could be the reason can any1 ..please tell me how to solve this issue

best regards
vasanth

Unless GNU make is installed , HP make does not take long (double dash) arguments.

man make

will show you what arguments to use