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From: Alan Hargreaves <alan@frey.newcastle.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: configuration parameters
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> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1992 17:20:40 -0600
> From: rjc@math.Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: configuration parameters
> 
> If we don't go with the config.h file, how about making the .o files
> dependent on the Makefile itself?  When trying to get rc up and running,
> I'll be tweaking the Makefile switches and adjusting the source and
> I'll forget to rm *.o before re-making, yielding a bizarre combination
> of old and new object code in the final executeable.  You can imagine
> how often I mumble to myself, ``But wait, I thought I fixed that
> in the Makefile...''

simpler idea, why not have config.h depend on Makefile and have make
build config.h? We have a few locally written packages here that do it
that way.

alan.
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