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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Make: Compiling source code from a different directory.
Message-ID: <5297@omepd.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 22:28:33 GMT
References: <404@massey.ac.nz>
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In-reply-to: KSpagnol@massey.ac.nz (Ken Spagnolo)

In article <404@massey.ac.nz>, KSpagnol@massey (Ken Spagnolo) writes:
[...cannot get make to grok '%' templates...]
| It works fine on the Sun, but when I tried it on our new DECstation 3100,
| it didn't work.  Does anyone know of another way to achieve this?  No
| matter what I try, I get "Don't know how to make target".  Thanx a lot.

Good old V7 make (probably what's on your DECstation), doesn't grok
'%' templates.  Get GNU Make (for free!) and use that instead.

Just another make hacker,
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