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Subject: Re: CTM: evolutions of ctm 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 1996 18:50:37 +0100."
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 22:27:37 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> Have been using CTM for a while and have changed it a little bit according to
> Poul-Henning Kamp's future plans (Handbook 14.5.5 and sources comments).
> 
> These changes seem to work (I'have been testing them for 3 weeks now
> with official ctm inputs on my -current tree) - I hope these patches could he
lp
> the community.

They will go right into the source :-)

> Evolutions :
> 
> 2 new options
> 
> 	-b <basedir>	path (relative or absolute) prepend on every files names

GOOD!

> 	-V <level>	verbose level added to current one ( -V 2 == -v -v  and
> 			-V 2 -v == -v -v -v )
ho hum...

> *and*
> 	possibility of local modifications to the tree :

YEAHHH!!!!

> 	before working on a file <name>, CTM first checks for the existence
> 	of the file <name>#ctm. If this file exists, CTM works on it instead.
> 
> 	this substitution works for :
> 
> 	    FM : CTM exits if <file>#ctm exists (and no -F)
> 	    FS : CTM substitutes the contents of file <file>#ctm
> 	FE, FN : CTM edits <file>#ctm
> 	    FR : CTM removes *only* <file>#ctm
> 	    AS : CTM changes permissions of <file>#ctm
> 
> 	side effects :
> 	    DR : CTM *does not* check for the existance of <dir>#ctm and
> 			the contents of <dir> before removing it.
> 
> I didn't find a real good idea to manage dependencies between
> <file> and <file>#ctm with make since it seems that make :
> 
> 	- does not understand suffix rules like
> 		%\#ctm %:
> 			production

Hmm, what if we make it .ctm then, would that be better ?

> 
> 	- does not check any dependencies for Makefile itself before working.
No, that would be a hard case...

I'll look at your patch as soon as I can!

--
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