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bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker) writes:

>>>>>> In article <als.726304707@marloo.kowari.cpsg.com.au>, als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman) writes:

>as> When a site has heterogeneous workstations and one central NFS
>as> server holding source it would be very useful if the makefiles
>as> supported separate source and object directories.

>Sounds like you need GNU make. Get it from prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu or
>many other sites around the world.


Possibly, but then I have to port it to all these different machines too.

Others have mailed me saying that I could just create a whole heap of symbolic
links in the object directory to the source directory.  This of course requires
that symbolic links be available on all machines.  I have done this from time
to time eg with X windows software such as the Xaw library.  To me it seems
like a rather messy and ugly kludge.

Another advantage of using the $(SRC)/prog.c form is that the source 
directory can be quickly switched (to a new version for example) by changing 
an environment variable rather than rebuilding symbolic links etc.

We use the $(SRC) structure extensively in-house for our software products.  It
works quite well over our entire menagerie of machines including UNIX, VMS, MPE
and DOS/Windows.

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CP Software Export Pty Ltd,      Before you are six or seven or eight,
19 Cato St., East Hawthorn,      To hate all the people your relatives hate,
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