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From: bww@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Bradley White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Strange makefile construct
Message-ID: <1235@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 17:22:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: k.1235
Posted: Sat Sep 19 17:22:49 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Sep-87 04:45:32 EDT
References: <1162@nrcvax.UUCP> <4624@nsc.nsc.com> <1942@encore.UUCP>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
Lines: 34
Summary: The CMU CS version of "make".
Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:4213 comp.unix.wizards:4407

In article <1942@encore.UUCP>, sue@encore.UUCP (Sue LoVerso) writes:
> In article <4624@nsc.nsc.com> woolsey@nsc.UUCP (Jeff Woolsey) writes:
> >All I need now is something that turns
> >
> >FILES = one two three four
> >
> >into
> >
> >	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) one.c two.c three.c four.c
> >
> 
> On a Multimax, running Mach:
> 
> Script started on Tue Sep 15 11:48:27 1987
> multimax >> src.test 27 >> cat makefile
> 
> FILES=	one two three four
> 
> all:
> 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(FILES:=.c)
> 
> multimax >> src.test 28 >> /usr/cs/bin/make -n
> cc  one.c two.c three.c four.c
> multimax >> src.test 29 >> exit
> Script ended on Tue Sep 15 11:49:14 1987

As far as I know, using a NULL "from" string in a macro translation
only works with the CMU-CS/Mach version of "make", as shown above.
This version is a modification of that distributed with 4.3BSD and
supports all "known" SysV features (the archive making rules are
slightly different) plus RCS files and a fixed $VPATH.
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