In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:24:34 -0700, 
Guillermo Maturana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

matute> Have you considered using "include" files in the Makefiles?
matute> This way one can place all the interesting variables in a
matute> single file and include that from all other Makefiles.  This
matute> would also help those gnarly make calls with a million
matute> arguments to lower Makefiles.  I am not sure if that would
matute> help this particular problem, but it would sure help to make
matute> it more manageable.

Well, that's a nice idea, if the syntax of such includes was uniform.
Unfortunately, it's not.  Some make implementations use "include" as
the keyword, others use ".include".  Some make implementations do not
have this functionality at all!

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