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From: khasin@hcrvx2.UUCP (Kha Sin Teow)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Make
Message-ID: <2376@hcrvx2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 09:49:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 15 09:49:26 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 17-Aug-86 02:46:12 EDT
References: <567@ukecc.UUCP>
Reply-To: khasin@hcrvx2.UUCP (Kha Sin Teow)
Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <567@ukecc.UUCP> sean@ukecc.UUCP (Sean Casey) writes:
>I need some help with make.  I've pored over the documentation, but
>it seems that no matter what I try I can't get it to do what I want.
>Could somebody please help me out?
> ...

although i don't have a complete solution to your problem, i have done
something similar to what you are trying to do.
typically i maintained a processed document file in the same directory
as the source, except that it is appended with a different suffix.
using your sample of file names:
	subject1.ms subject2.ms
i would put the processed files into:
	subject1.doc subject2.doc

Consequently, the Makefile would look something like this:

	# Make file for processing subject documents
	.SUFFIXES .doc .ms
	#
	.ms.doc:
		nroff -ms $*.ms | myprog > $*.doc


If you must keep *.doc in a separate subdirectory, you could "mv" or
"ln" them.
Otherwise, you would have to explicitly specify the depedency of each
processed file and its source:

	# another make file line
	docsdir/subject1.doc:	subject1.ms
		nroff -ms ...

which is not as "elegant" as the previous setup.

Hope this help.


Kha Sin TEOW, HCR.
Toronto.