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From: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: rcs for SysV
Message-ID: <1548@hsfmsh.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 01:48:09 GMT
References: <78@vidiot.UUCP> <1367@celit.fps.com> <6218@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
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In article <6218@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
    In article <1367@celit.fps.com> billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson) writes:
    +Does anyone know why Berkeley (or anyone in their right mind) still
     uses SCCS?

    Because make (at least the augmented version  of make) understands
    SCCS.

Try this in your next Makefile:

	SOURCES= <list of source files>
	HEADERS= <list of header files>
	OBJECTS= $(SOURCES:.c=.o)
	RCSDIR= .
	RCSFILES= $(SOURCES) $(HEADERS)
	...
	CO= co -q
	COFLAGS= 
	...
	$(RCSFILES):	$(RCSDIR)/RCS/$$@,v
		$(CO) $(COFLAGS) $(RCSDIR)/RCS/$@,v

This works with both Sun makes (the new and old versions) as well as
System V make (tested on an HP [SysV.2] and on SysV/386 3.2).

Or use GNU make.

The advantage (and disadvantage) of the above is that it will ALWAYS co
the version from the RCS directory if it is newer than the one in the
current directory.

--marc
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