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Subject: #! /usr/sbin/smake
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Date: 25 Apr 91 01:46:20 GMT
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I just observed that if the above comment was put into a makefile,
in the first character, like a shell directive,
then when you type make, make will use that program to
process the makefile, instead of the default make.

This is a really useful feature. I never noticed it in the documentation.

In this way, my makefiles can know that they are to be processed
by , say pmake or smake instead of the default make.

Cheers!


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