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On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:42:34AM -0400, Dan Langille (dan@langille.org) wrote:
> It does invoke make.  But it needs all the components in order for 
> make to function.

..which as I've told you before is not hard to do.  You just need
to make a perl script to read in the primary Makefile and look
for ".include" directives then pull in the files.

Although I agree that consistency is required.. you should still
do this the right way as above... simply because things change.

-- 
wca

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