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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: makedepend
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Date: 18 Mar 91 20:31:49 GMT
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In article <1037@pallas.athenanet.com> dlee@pallas.athenanet.com (Doug Lee) writes:
>In article <1991Mar16.032210.16252@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> uwm!ogicse!cadreor!ling@uunet.UU.NET (Ling Kan) writes:
>>Just out of curiosity, has anyone wrote a makedepend in perl?
>
>I wrote a perl script called ``mkdep'' in November of '90 and posted it
>(I forgot in which group).  A net.safe version of the man page follows:

You can't call it mkdep. Berkeley has a shell script by the same name.
And X11 has a program called makedepend. If you want to use one of
these names, you should emulate its behavior.

There is no sense in reinventing the wheel. And that includes you too,
Larry. Much better is to grab one of these and pass it around.

I also feel the same way about Larry's install scripts.
What's wrong with the BSD install script? Just make it
a part of your distribution rather than rolling your own.
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