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From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Toal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Freeze - Arc version - Compiling C programs - a standard ?
Keywords: Freeze, C library standard
Message-ID: <10786@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Jun 91 21:47:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: castle.10786
References: <&+3_98|@warwick.ac.uk>
Organization: Edinburgh University
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In article <&+3_98|@warwick.ac.uk> maumg@warwick.ac.uk (Pop Mobility Freak) writes:
:However I believe we ought to come to an unoffical standard about using
:operating system variables to locate libraries as everyone will want to store
:the libraries in different places. This would prevent names being hardwired
:into makefiles. I recomend the ones I have used above as a draft standard.
:That is <C$LibRoot> for the CLib and <C$Loc>.<library name> for any others
:(for example RiscOsLib and Utils). So how about it? Anyone got any strong
:feelings either way to adopting this naming convention as an unofficial
:standard?

YES!  Try to uses PATHS wherever possible, to allow > 1 directory to
be examined.  In this particulat case, why not Clib$path as used by both
PMoore's utils and many Acorn makefiles?

Graham