Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Anyone know of a "better" 'make' than vanilla System-V's?. Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 90 03:32:43 GMT References: <1990Oct3.000440.5275@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <1990Oct12.171347.28996@tc.fluke.COM> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 21 In-reply-to: lowell@tc.fluke.COM's message of 12 Oct 90 17:13:47 GMT In article <1990Oct12.171347.28996@tc.fluke.COM> lowell@tc.fluke.COM (Lowell Skoog) writes: | > We have well over 100 Makefiles in | > one project; most of which contain basically the same information; but | > with minor differences. | | Several respondents have mentioned the "include" directive of make. | I second this recommendation. .... The only real problem with 'include' is the way it was hacked into make prevents you from having a rule such as: include.o: include.c hdr.h Whoops.... -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?