Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!stan!dworkin From: dworkin@Solbourne.COM (Dieter Muller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray Subject: Re: Whats Missing? Message-ID: <2569@salgado.Solbourne.COM> Date: 3 Oct 89 04:04:01 GMT References: <3199@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <681@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> <1989Sep22.002411.6208@agate.berkeley.edu> <683@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> Reply-To: dworkin@Solbourne.com (Dieter Muller) Distribution: comp.unix.cray Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Colorado Lines: 19 In article <683@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@orange19 (David E. Bernholdt) writes: >Well okay, but I can put [bld] in my makefiles about as easily as I can >replace ranlib with `lorder | tsort`. The point is that I have 60 >makefiles for numerous programs and I don't want to have to modify >them all. So cheat. Pick some convenient directory that you (hey, why not everyone else while you're at it) have in your path and are allowed to add things to. Install the equivalent two-line shell script and name the result ``ranlib''. No makefiles need be modified. Or am I missing something incredibly obvious again? Dworkin -- ...for the blood is the life, and the life is but a nightmare become real. boulder!stan!dworkin dworkin%stan@boulder.colorado.edu dworkin@solbourne.com Flamer's Hotline: (303) 678-4624 (1000 - 1800 Mountain Time)