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From: fjh@bentley.UUCP (FJ Hirsch)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Makefile question
Message-ID: <404@bentley.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-May-84 18:04:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: bentley.404
Posted: Tue May  8 18:04:02 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 9-May-84 02:53:15 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway
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I have a makefile question:

Say my makefile makes a .o file from a .c file, but it cannot
find the .c file in the current directory so it dies saying:

Make:  Don't know how to make bss.o.  Stop.

What I want it to do is:
if the .c file is there go on as usual
if it is not there - go get it!

Ie pretend there is the rule:

?.c:
	goget magicplace $*.c

?.h:	
	<or do something smart>


where <or do something smart> is user defined and ?.X means if .X not found 
then <or do something smart> (to beat it into the ground).

And then I might want SCCS to get involved as well (eg ?~.c: )

BUT
I really don't want to change makefile SO

has someone solved this problem already?

If I learn something interesting I'll post it.
Thanks. :-)

<*> Fred Hirsch <*> AT&T Bell Laboratories <*> eagle!pyuxbb!fjh <*>