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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How to get $(HOME) in BSD4.3 Makefiles?
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Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 03:53:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  1 03:53:33 1987
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In article <19550@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jwm@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff
Mc Carrell) writes:
>... I'd like to have an incantation that is portable across these 2
>systems that will expand to my home directory.  [With the omitted
>definitions,] $(DEST) expands to $(HDIR)/bin expands to ${HOME}/bin
>and BSD make doesn't know how to evaluate that.  SunOS make works
>fine because it reads all of the environment variables, so ${HOME}
>is known.

The trick, then, is to pass all environment variables into make,
without changing make.  Surprise, this is easy.  Arthur Olson's
script to the rescue:

	% cat bin/make
	#! /bin/csh -f
	exec /bin/make $*:q "`printenv`"
	% 

This does slow make noticeably on, e.g., 750s.  I use it anyway.
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