Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Configuring make (Re: Peter's gripes)
Message-ID: <1990Feb2.164340.17039@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 90 16:43:40 GMT

In article <6481@netcom.UUCP> gam@netcom.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) writes:
>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

Trouble is, we'd have to modify a *lot* of lines of makefiles to do this.
I'd prefer a less intrusive approach.
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