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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW Make file weirdness
Message-ID: <2431.275c2140@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 4 Dec 90 09:20:48 GMT
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In <1990Dec3.172201.17768@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU
(Marc T. Kaufman) suggests a Make rule for updating the dependency
of one .h file on another.

He gets it *almost* correct, only missing a ".". Here is the correct
form of the rule:

	file2.h \f file1.h
	    SetFile -m . file2.h

("\f" = option-f -- see the MPW tools I posted a week or two back.)
I have encountered the same situation myself, and the above rule
(changing the modification date on file2.h to be "now") seems the
simplest solution.

Lawrence "If it can't be done with MPW, it isn't worth doing" D'Oliveiro
Computer Services Dept                              fone: +64-71-562-889
University of Waikato                                fax: +64-71-384-066
Hamilton, New Zealand                   electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz