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From: alo@kampi.hut.fi (Antti Louko)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Cake (was Recursive #includes)
Summary: Cake can susprise you
Message-ID: <20078@santra.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 89 20:47:58 GMT
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In article <238@yasc.PLA.CA.US> geoff@yasc.PLA.CA.US (Geoff Leach) writes:
>Turns out there's a cure for this.  Try "cake", posted to comp.sources.unix,
>volume 12.  Not only does it permit the user to program _all_ his/her own
>rules, but it also permits the specification of dynamic dependencies.

When I saw cake first time, it seemed just fine. But after a while I
realized one thing. After that I haven't used cake anymore.

Lets have an Cakefile:

$ cat Cakefile
vax:	/dev/null
	cp /dev/null vax

$ cake
cp /dev/null 1
$

Funny, uh? If you have a SUN, replace "vax" with "sun".

Try GNU make instead. It is more compatible with original make and it
doesn't confuse variable names with file names.