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Subject: Re: Using bsd.prog.mk in a project with multiple binaries
From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
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On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 08:45:26AM -0800, R. Tyler Croy wrote:
> > Howdy, I'm trying to find some documentation or examples of using
> bsd.prog.mk
> > inside of a project with multiple binaries that need to get created. I'm
> able
> ...
> This seems plusable as a layout.  Note that while you need one Makefile
> per program, you don't necessicairly need to spread the code out if you
> don't want to.  If you'd rather keep the source files in one place you
> can use .PATH: directives to access them from a central location.
>

Since I have had a similar problem in the past...
i am also under the impression that those Makefile must be
in different directories -- am i wrong ?
(in this case having all the sources in a single place does
not help too much; and I'd rather have a single Makefile
to handle a small set of closely related programs)

cheers
luigi