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From: aob@ausmelb.oz.au (Andrew Bulka)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: make for pc's
Message-ID: <422@ausmelb.oz.au>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 04:14:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: ausmelb.422
Posted: Wed Sep 16 04:14:24 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Sep-87 06:45:28 EDT
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Reply-To: aob@ausmelb.UUCP (Andrew Bulka)
Organization: Austec International Limited, Melbourne
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There seems to be a bug in the version of `make' suppied with curses for
the ibm pc.  A line like:

.c.obj: ; cl -c $*.c

is read but ignored, the default rule still remaining as 'cc ...'.  To quote
he manual:

>  The rule to create a file with suffix s2 that depends on a similarly named
>  file with suffix s1 is specified as an entry for the `target' s1s2.  In
>  such an entry, the special macros
>
>  	$* stands for the target name with suffix deleted,
>	$@ for the full target name,
>	$< for the complete list of prerequisites,
>	$? for the list of prerequisites that are out of date.
>
>   For example, a rule for making optimized `.obj' files from `.c' files is
>
>          .c.obj: ; cc -c -O -o $@ $*.c
>
>   Certain macros are used by the default inference rules to communicate op-
>   tional arguments to any resulting compilations. 

This doesn't seem to work despite every other feature of this wonderful
implementation of 'make' working.  It is a pity, meaning that one
cannot change the *default* inference rules, 'cc' being inappropriate 
for Microsoft C.

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Andy Bulka,		   ----=----  ACSnet: aob@ausmelb.oz
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