Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Configuring make (Re: Peter's gripes) Message-ID: <1990Feb2.164229.16968@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <519@smcnet.UUCP> <_E7166Cxds13@ficc.uu.net> <64T#Y$@rpi.edu> <7V716AAxds13@ficc.uu.net> <1990Jan29.232907.12180@utzoo.uucp> <1990Jan30.041541.23578@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1990Jan30.185214.8197@utzoo.uucp> <1 Date: Fri, 2 Feb 90 16:42:29 GMT In article flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: >Systems I know let you say something like > make -f ../conf/make.defs -f ./Makefile >This is flexible enough to handle mildly complex configuration >problems. Are there systems where this will not work? We *think* this is fairly universal -- it was in the V7 manual, so anyone who hasn't implemented it *really* wasn't paying attention -- and it's the leading candidate mechanism for dealing with the problem. -- 1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu