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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: parallel makefiles for Sequent with Imake?
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Date: 12 Jan 90 07:33:25 GMT
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In <44097@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes:
> Use GNUMAKE.  It does not require the & to be effective.
> GNUMAKE runs on the Sequent, but no guarantees are made for some of
> the more challenging syntax in X Makefiles.

I'd prefer to use it and I hope it does a better job with R4 than it
did with R3.  Because of a couple of case of mulitply defined targets,
and some other things that I don't remember right now, it was a real
pain.  It wasn't until the third time I was about to start make World
that I suspected the make utility (I forgot I was using GNU by default)
might be the cause of my problems.  /bin/make did it as expected.  In
the above case of multiple targets the Makefiles seemed to be more at
fault, though I think the other problems were with GNU Make itself.
Roland McGrath and the X Consortium might have some religions
arguments about proper makefiles, but I just wanted it to work.

[For multiply defined targets I mean a Makefile like this:
$ cat > Makefile
test:
	echo a > test

test:
	echo b > test
$

A couple of (not many) R3 Makefiles generated by imake did something
similar to that. ]

Dave
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