> From: Larry Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [eug-lug]make -d s foo > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Does anyone know of a good resource to help decode the intricacies of > make > (BSD make in this case although gmake _should_ be bug compatible) > > specifically the default suffix and filename expansion rules which do > not seem to be > listed in the man page . > > so far I've found Fowler's original paper, and the gnu documentation > page > but nothing that answers my question. > > which is, where are the suffix expansion rules defined?
Take a look* in /usr/share/doc/psd/ . Chapter 12 covers BSD 'make'. My copy of "Porting UNIX Software" also covers BSD make. Let me know if you want to borrow it. * the is on NetbSD; FreeBSD is probably similar though. -Beaker -- [ SiMpLe MaChInEs ] --> gopher://beaker.mdns.org or (via proxy) http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?gopher://beaker.mdns.org:70/1 _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
