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From: prs@tcsc3b2.tcsc.com (Paul Stath)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: rcs for SysV
Message-ID: <1989Oct12.232837.5143@tcsc3b2.tcsc.com>
Date: 12 Oct 89 23:28:37 GMT
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Of course with a little ingenuity, make will also handle RCS.  Just use
	$ make -fp < /dev/null 2>/dev/null >rules.c
to get a list of the default inference rules.  Then hack out the ones that don't
have a '~' in them.  Replace the ~ with a ',v'  place them in a file called
rcs.rules or something and use the make include directive like this:

include "/usr/lib/rcs.rules"

This will effectively give you additional rules to use RCS.  The only drawback
is that make only looks for {makefile, Makefile, s.makefile or s.Makefile}
(Guess not everything can be perfect.)

This means that you have to extract a copy of the makefile before you can
run make.  Which is not a problem for me because I usually need to retreive
old as well as current versions.  (Old retrieves sure are _fast_ in RCS!)

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