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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Sun, 5 Jan 1997 14:24:12 -0700 (MST), Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> said:

>> Fix Makefile so that dependencies are actually right this time.
>> It is almost always the wrong thing to put .y and .l files directly
>> into the SRCS.

> The original CSRG Makefiles always did this, so why do you consider it a
> bad thing?

Because dependencies don't work (and can't work without extra effort).

-GAWollman

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