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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: OK, here it is! [was Re: Whoops! That was a mite premature..]
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>> >What's wrong with `cd ${.OBJDIR}'?
>> 
>> To begin with, it's a syntax error.  Shell identifiers can't begin with
>> a `.'.

>Huh?  Make defines this and expands it before the shell ever gets to
>it.

We're talking about replacing `cd obj' and `ls obj/' with `cd someplace'
and `ls someplace'.  Only make really knows where the object directory
is, so it should tell you if you invoke it with some option.

Bruce