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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/chflags Makefile
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 13:08:31 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199507241800.EAA26941@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 25, 95 04:00:03 am
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> 
> >Why shouldn't:
> >ECHO?=		echo
> >INSTALL?=	install
> 
> >be there?
> 
> Because `echo' and `install' aren't referenced in the default rules.  This
> argument also applies to the following macros in sys.mk:
> 
> 	unix
> 	.LIBS
> 	X11BASE
> 	AR, ARFLAGS, RANLIB
> 	CPP
> 	LDFLAGS
> 	LINT, LINTFLAGS
> 	RC
> 	MAKE
> 	SHELL

I think some of those are either there for historical reasons, or
possible requirements of Posix.2.  I really really need to go get
me a full set of Posix doc's I guess :-(.

> >I can agree that ECHODIR should die, not so sure what to do with 
> >SUBDIRUSE and `===> path', pmake does not have a -w flag.
> 
> >Does gnu make have subdir processing built in?
> 
> I don't think it has the equivalent of bsd.subdir.mk.  Printing the
> current directory when make is started would be easy.  gmake prints
> `Entering directory foo ... Leaving directory foo'.  It is noisy.

Oh, yea, that, uggh.... and we both hate ``Noisy'' things you can't
turn off easily :-).


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