Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!davis From: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Makefile and csh...? Message-ID: Date: 3 Jun 91 10:09:39 GMT References: <1991May21.210000.15284@shearson.com> <3605@litchi.bbn.com> Sender: news@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (John E. Davis) Organization: "Dept. of Physics, The Ohio State University" Lines: 17 In-reply-to: rsalz@bbn.com's message of 2 Jun 91 21:33:51 GMT In article <3605@litchi.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: In <1991May21.210000.15284@shearson.com> kaplanr@shearson.com (Roger Kaplan) writes:{ 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 I missed the main thread here but what about just using `>!' to redirect output? It always ignores the value of noclobber. -- John bitnet: davis@ohstpy internet: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu