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From: beede@hubcap.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Convention for naming manual pages: .l vs .1 (make)
Message-ID: <123@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 10:22:21 EST
Article-I.D.: hubcap.123
Posted: Mon Mar  9 10:22:21 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Mar-87 05:02:43 EST
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Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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The consensus seems to be that .l is a bad suffix for files supplied
in conjunction with a makefile.  Under BSD and System V, the default
suffixes can be overridden with

.SUFFIXES:
.SUFFIXES: .c .o .p . . . .whatever

after which, of course, the rules .x.y have to be specified.  This is
not a hardship, since ``make -fp - </dev/null >>makefile'' will append
the default rules, which can then be edited.  

So it seems to me that the only difficulty with .l files (after all,
this is the default extension for some Lisps) is when you are using
lex, too.

Adding this is probably no more trouble than remembering to rename
.man files to .l when installing them (within the make file, that is).

-- 
Mike Beede		   UUCP: . . . ! gatech!hubcap!beede
Computer Science Dept.          
Clemson University
Clemson SC 29631-1906