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Subject: Re: .depend
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In-Reply-To: <199610092052.NAA18730@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 9, 96 01:52:17 pm
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying:
> 
> > IMHO, this entire discussion results from a fundamental error in the
> > methodology of building multiple versions from a single set of sources.
> > Rather than "kluge" something else into "make" so you can "get by", we
> > should fix the methodology.
> 
> What happens when I want to build several different machine architectures
> from the same NFS mounted sources instead of placing 3 times the SUP
> load on one of the severs to get thrre times the trees on three times
> the local diskk space used?

.depend is in the object directory.  Unless you're a total loser, you
_will_ have seperate object directories, right?

> 					Terry Lambert

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