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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Problem with make
Keywords: make for sysV
Message-ID: <11195@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Sep 89 01:35:28 GMT
References: <715@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM> <11169@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1989Sep29.164831.26616@wash08.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1989Sep29.164831.26616@wash08.uucp> rae98@wash08.UUCP (Robert A. Earl) writes:
>Can you read in a variable for use in the makefile?

If I understood your question correctly, what you want is
	make target VAR=value
which will override any definition for the "VAR" variable
defined in the Makefile.