Hi, Jerry Coffin!
On 24 Sep 97  11:36:51 you wrote to Paul Wankadia
 JC> The major problem with writing about make is that make isn't a single
 JC> program, and there's no standard that gets followed either.  While a
 JC> lot of simple makefiles work fine with quite a few versions of make, as
 JC> soon as you use any advanced features of one particular make, your
 JC> files become incompatible with quite a few other versions.
Yes. :-((
I always tend to cry thinking of my makefiles under borland 3.1.
They listed nothing but foo.obj: foo.c  and a single .AUTODEPEND at the
beginning.  The dependency info was placed in the .OBJ files as comment
records, so listing all the .H files were unnecessary.
Paul
... Don't worry. Be happy.
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