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| Title: | USG buildhelp questions/answers |
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| Moderator: | SMURF::FILTER |
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| Created: | Mon Apr 26 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jan 20 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2763 |
| Total number of notes: | 5802 |
1786.0. "is there a better way to..." by AOSG::FILTER (Automatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puck) Thu Aug 31 1995 16:49
Date Of Receipt: 31-AUG-1995 15:43:50.67
From: SMURF::ALPHA::frank "Douglas Frank USG 31-Aug-1995 1542"
To: odehelp@DEC:.zko.alpha
CC:
Subj: is there a better way to...
Hi,
To make a short story boring, I needed a function that did >*foo*<, and
it turned out that I didn't need to write it from scratch; someone else
had faced the same need a while back, so all I had to do was clone their
source file into my own little empire.
Now that I have the time, I'd like to get rid of the clone and use the
original source-- no sense having duplicate files around, right? I made
a sym link to the original, and it seems to work, but I was wondering if
there's some more elegant way to do this via the Makefile.
OFILES = mystuff.o foo.o <-- this works when foo.c is a sym link to
../../../blah/foo.c
OFILES = mystuff.o ../../../blah/foo.o <-- this compiles the .o's but
puts foo.o in the current directory, not in ../../../blah, so it breaks
'ar'. Is there a way to make this work?
thanks
--Doug
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| 1786.1 | Re: is there a better way to... | AOSG::FILTER | Automatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puck | Thu Aug 31 1995 17:59 | 11 |
| Date Of Receipt: 31-AUG-1995 16:09:25.85
From: SMURF::FLUME::jmcg "Jim McGinness"
To: frank@DEC:.zko.flume
CC: buildhelp@DEC:.zko.flume
Subj: Re: is there a better way to...
It sounds like you just need a VPATH directive so files in ../../../blah
can be referred to with simple names.
S -- jmcg
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| 1786.2 | Re: is there a better way to... | AOSG::FILTER | Automatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puck | Thu Aug 31 1995 19:05 | 27 |
| Date Of Receipt: 31-AUG-1995 17:15:13.17
From: SMURF::FLUME::jmcg "Jim McGinness"
To: frank@DEC:.zko.flume
CC: buildhelp@DEC:.zko.flume
Subj: Re: is there a better way to...
That particular question is answered on the make(1) manpage if you know
where to look. I think there's also an example in template.mk. The
buildhelp alias gets a wide range of questions and they're all logged
to the AOSG::BUILDHELP notesfile. I don't know how easy that is to
use or even if people still remember it's out there. Most of the
time, it's fastest to just ask the list.
-- jmcg
> To: Jim McGinness <jmcg>
> Subject: Re: is there a better way to...
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 16:38:31 -0400
> From: frank
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> It sounds like you just need a VPATH directive so files in ../../../blah
> can be referred to with simple names.
>
> Yup, that did the trick, thanks. It there a reference somewhere
> for questions like this?
>
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