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- From: philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
- Subject: Re: make and SGI sales (unrelated)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.062204.192@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
- Reply-To: philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <1110@shrike.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 06:22:04 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1110@shrike.com> flash@austin.lockheed.com (James W. Melton)
- writes:
- > 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`
-
- Try man pmake - I found the following which may do what you want:
- VARIABLE != command
- will execute command using the Bourne shell and place the result in the
- given variable
-
- In general I find pmake more useful (especially on an 8 processor machine) and
- I suspect better maintained.
-
- [detail erased]
-
- > 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?
-
- At least the man page for pmake is honest about this one:
-
- PMake doesn't have make(1)'s tilde rules for SCCS files
- --
- Philip Machanick
- philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
-