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- From: flash@austin.lockheed.com (James W. Melton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: make and SGI sales (unrelated)
- Summary: problems with make and sales gripes
- Keywords: make sccs
- Message-ID: <1110@shrike.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 02:57:49 GMT
- Organization: "Lockheed Austin Division, 6800 Burleson Rd, Austin, TX 78744
- Lines: 60
-
- I have two unrelated issues. First the important one. Ever since
- making the switch from Sun to SGI, I have never looked back. Nor do
- I want to. Except for one thing. Make on the Sun seems to be vastly
- superior to make on SGI.
-
- The documentation of make in the SGI manuals is spartan at best.
- Also, some of the best features of Sun make are not available on
- the SGI, like shell assignements of macros; e.g.,
-
- CURRENT_DIR = `pwd`
-
- However, some things which _ought_ to work on the SGI are not
- working for me. For example, consider the following makefile
- fragment (pardon me if there are minor syntax errors; I am making
- this up as I go):
-
- OBJECTS = func1.o func2.o func3.o
- PROGRAM = foo
-
- all: $(PROGRAM)
-
- $(PROGRAM): $(OBJECTS)
- $(CC) -o $@ $(OBJECTS)
-
- I have an SCCS directory which contains SCCS files for func1.c,
- func2.c, and func3.c. Running make with this makefile gives the
- error:
-
- Don't know how to make func1.o
-
- According the man page (and I verified the .c~.o rule) make should
- extract func1.c from SCCS and compile it to produce func1.o (same
- for the other files). Why doesn't this work? I called the TAC, and
- the dispatcher said she had just taken another call on a similar
- problem. Does anyone have any hints or answers? Is this an FAQ?
-
- ---------------------------------------
-
- Second topic. Recently, I tried to call my local sales rep. It
- turns out that he didn't meet his sales quota and SGI let him go.
- This is a shame, because he was one of the best salesmen I have
- ever known. He was personally responsible for convincing me that
- SGI is a reputable company with solid support behind the product.
- He is a lot less greasy than your typical sales lizard.
-
- The question is: is this normal procedure for SGI? Miss a quota and
- hit the road? Does this imply anything about SGI's current or
- future financial picture? I really need a local sales rep. We are
- in the midst of a pitched evangelism campaign and I can't do SGI's
- sales job for them. Calling some guy in California won't cut it.
- What is SGI's policy for local sales reps?
-
- Just curious.
-
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- Jim Melton, novice guru
- email: flash@austin.lockheed.com | "So far as we know, our
- voice mail: (512) 386-4486 | computer has never had
- fax: (512) 386-4223 | an undetected error"
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