Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!twitch!anuck!maddog From: maddog@anuck.UUCP (j.j.tupper) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: make & RCS Message-ID: <1307@anuck.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 88 21:48:33 GMT References: <752@paris.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: maddog@anuck.UUCP (j.j.tupper) Organization: ATT Bell Labs, Andover, MA Lines: 13 In article <752@paris.ics.uci.edu> nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) writes: >... I tried to set up default dependencies with >.SUFFIXES, but that didn't seem to work out too well either. Somehow, >I feel there must be an easier way. Can anyone suggest one to me? We get around that by not using RCS sub-directories (the ,v files are kept in the same directory as the sources). Then a simple production for .c,v.c: works fine. We build our system from ,v files and only do checkins manually, therefore our make system never has to do checkins (I can't help you with your infinite loop problem). -maddog