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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Peter's gripes
Message-ID: <1990Feb2.131651.18711@tct.uucp>
Date: 2 Feb 90 13:16:51 GMT
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According to woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods):
>I've re-written the makefiles for 13-Nov-1989 C News to use include to
>a file containing most of the local configuration information (and
>use a new rule to create runnable versions of the now re-named .sh
>files by using a modified subst.)

There's an easier solution, which is also portable.  It depends on the
feature of all versions of make that multiple files can be read with
the "-f" option.

In each directory with a Makefile, rename Makefile to makefile.here,
and create a tiny shell script called "mk" that looks like this:

	: mk
	make -f ../conf/makefile.std -f makefile.here ${1+"$@"}

Then instead of typing "make all", type "mk all".  (The "make" command
won't work, anyway, since "Makefile" doesn't exist.)  Presto, all
makefiles have "include" without "include".

And best of all, I won't charge you royalties.  :-)
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT   <chip%tct@ateng.com>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>
          "The Usenet, in a very real sense, does not exist."