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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: make for pc's
Message-ID: <786@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 08:40:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.786
Posted: Mon Sep 21 08:40:22 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Sep-87 05:21:30 EDT
References: <6109@ut-ngp.UUCP> <422@ausmelb.oz.au>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
Lines: 18
Summary: Try it this way.

In article <422@ausmelb.oz.au>, aob@ausmelb.UUCP writes:
> 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:

In practice, you're likely to be better served with this:

.c.obj:
	c -c $*.c

since the ';' there is just syntactic sugar not implemented in most makes.
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