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From: jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Makefile Wizardry
Keywords: make makefiles help
Message-ID: <640@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 90 00:20:29 GMT
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Reply-To: jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins)
Organization: Scientific Atlanta, Government Products Div, San Diego, CA
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The best manual on make by far is from Sun.  Look for the Programming Utilities
and Libraries manual, Sun part number 800-1774-15.  I don't know if Sun will
sell manuals without selling the hardware but it's worth a shot.  Anyway, one
of their examples looks almost exactly like what you are trying to do.

Oh, you're not using Sun's make?  Well, I think gnu make supports all the
extensions Sun does and then some.  But their manual isn't as nice.  No kidding,
no matter what make you use I recommend getting the Sun manual.  (For gnu make
look into the sources archives, or write the Free Software Foundation, 675
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139.



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jim		jharkins@sagpd1

"I've found by and large that when the flu gets you, the best thing to do (other
 than go to bed, which is boring) is to go conquer something." -Jerry Pournelle