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From: hartman@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: has anybody put $VPATH into mk?
Message-ID: <7600011@uiucdcsm>
Date: 27 Jun 88 15:59:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu!hartman    Jun 27 10:59:00 1988


In article <732@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>     We recently got mk from the Toolchest (Hi Andrew!) and
>before I go hacking it up too much I want to check with others.
>Has anybody added $VPATH to mk?  Make has this very helpful
>undocumented feature and I want it here.

Actually, you might want to take a look at GNU Make.  It has VPATH, plus
a lot of other strange and interesting additions.

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Mark Hartman                     hartman@a.cs.uiuc.edu
                                 ..uiucdcs!hartman