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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Makefile and csh...?
Message-ID: <3605@litchi.bbn.com>
Date: 2 Jun 91 21:33:51 GMT
References: <1991May21.210000.15284@shearson.com>
Organization: BBN Systems and Technology, Inc.
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In <1991May21.210000.15284@shearson.com> kaplanr@shearson.com (Roger Kaplan) writes:
>The simple makefile looks like this:
>SHELL = /bin/csh
You will live to regret this.  Put
	SHELL=/bin/sh
in your Makefiles and write your actions accordingly -- your stuff will be
more portable (sort of), and you will be much less frustrated by the Cshell's
idiosyncratic behavior.

As to the specific problem:
>	cc -M $(CFILES) > deps
causes the Cshell to not overwrite a file.  Ignore advice telling you to
put "unset noclobber" in everyone's .cshrc file.  Put this line before the
cc line instead:
	rm -f deps
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