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From: XITIJSCH%DDATHD21.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Makefile for Compressed files (.o.Z)
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Date: 12 Apr 91 10:27:42 GMT
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> I've been trying to create a makefile which automatically uncompresses
>   the appropriate file when it is needed.  Let's limit the discussion
>   to just .o files.
>
> It seems that one would want to define a rule to take *.o.Z files and
>   make them into *.o files:
>       .o.Z.o:
>               uncompress $<
>   but I think that the multiple '.'s in the rule confuses MAKE.  I
>   tried adding .o.Z to the SUFFIXES list, but that doesn't seem
>   to help at all.

Ever tried cake? There you can write something like:

%.o.Z: %.o
        uncompress %.o

Where % is substituted by your file name (it's an ``unbound part'' of
this rule). cake is available at gatekeeper.dec.com in directory
pub/case.

--
Joachim

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Joachim Schrod                          Email: xitijsch@ddathd21.bitnet
Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany