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From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: generating code to run multiple targets/configurations from single
Message-ID: <13567@ncoast.ORG>
Date: 15 Apr 89 16:06:06 GMT
References: <18927@adm.BRL.MIL> <10445@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <13157@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <13157@watdragon.waterloo.edu> by tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray):
+---------------
| In article <10445@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
| >One thing I've found which helps is if your C compiler(s) pay
| >attention to the -o flag even in the presence of -c.
| 
| An excellent idea, but you happen to be in the Sun world, and you're running
| Sunos 4.x, and you do this, you get hundreds of brain-dead idiotic warnings
| from cc about 'file with unknown suffix .po passed to ld'; not that it doesn't
+---------------

Sounds familiar... ncoast does this.  Since when is Sun importing System *III*
misfeatures?!  (I haven't seen System V pull this stunt.)

++Brandon
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