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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
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Subject: Re: Bug with imake (I think)
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Date: 1 Aug 90 05:36:17 GMT
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From article <9007311753.AA01310@denali.WV.TEK.COM>, by paulsh@denali.wv.tek.COM (Paul Shearer):
> The mistake made below is a common one.  The user should remember the 
> general rule that Make macros are all capitals and the cpp macros have
> only the first letter capitalized.  Thus the convention is:
> 
> ALL_CAPITALS		this is a Makefile macro
> FirstLetterCapital	this is a cpp macro to be set in configuration files

As a general rule, yes.  A better rule is: look at the configuration
files and find out how the symbol is actually used.  There are numerous
exceptions to the makevar=ALLCAPS, cppsymbol=UpperLower rule, unfortunately.
For example:
	Imake.tmpl:
		YES NO UNCOMPRESSPATH TOPDIR CURDIR INCLUDE_IMAKEFILE
	Project.tmpl:
		UNCOMPRESSFILT BDFTOSNFFILT SHELLPATH ZBDFTOSNFFILT

Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu