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From: masa@hpsciz.sc.hp.com (Masayoshi Habu)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Wisdom for handling C++ files with suffix .cc
Message-ID: <1410007@hpsciz.sc.hp.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 16:33:54 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.200637.16078@watson.ibm.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
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In comp.lang.c++, oasis@watson.ibm.com (GA.Hoffman) writes:

    I just received a bunch of c++ files with suffix .cc,
    CC wants .C or some such ... is there conventional wisdom
    on handling this in makefiles?  I'm currently making a
    link during the compile, file by file to a file with the
    desired suffix.

Just an idea. How about this ?

.SUFFIXES: $(SUFFIXES) .cc
.cc.C:
	mv $*.cc $*.C
.C.o:
	$(CXX) -c $(CXXFLAGS) $<

Masa