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From: gam@netcom.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Configuring make (Re: Peter's gripes)
Message-ID: <6481@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 90 05:28:02 GMT
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In smail 3.1 all the Makefiles use common defs.sh to set environment
variables, then refer to them in the same line, like so:

	. defs.sh ; cc $$CFLAGS -c foo.c

... CFLAGS is set from defs.sh rather than in the Makefile itself.
How's that?
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Gordon Moffett                            gam@netcom.UUCP
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