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From: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
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Subject: Re: How do you get make to check out things from RCS?
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Date: 1 Oct 90 18:06:35 GMT
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From article <7310@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, by haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000):
> I'm just starting to play with RCS.  How do I fix a Makefile, or hack
> the make program, to get it to check out things it needs automatically
> from the RCS directory?

Mr. Burns suggests a few makeifle constructs to do this.

Another alternative is to use GNUmake (from the Free Software Foundation).
GNUmake has built-in knowledge of RCS and will perform checkouts as needed.

Available via FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu.  Probably available via anonymous
UUCP from somewhere -- I'm sure someone out there will know.
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John G Dobnick  (JGD2)
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