>> On Fri, 17 Nov 1995 09:57:58 +0000 (GMT),
>> Mark Powell(M) wrote:
>> From: mdb_at_cdc.noaa.gov (Mark Borges)
>>
>> The R6 version of imake likes this syntax:
>>
>> EXTRA_LIBRARIES .= XPM_LIBRARIES
>>
>> which, as you might guess, prepends XPM_LIBRARIES to EXTRA_LIBRARIES.
>>
>> I couldn't find this behaviour documented, but if it is a standard
>> thing I would think that would be the way to go.
M> I tried it on SunOS4 and it didn't work.
M> Lines of this nature aren't interpreted by imake, they just get copied
M> to the Makefile, so I suspect this is a feature of `make' on your
M> system, not R6's imake.
Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, I was being sloppy, and GNU make
was doing what I wanted. Probably the more portable solution is to use
the `+=' syntax, which is recognized by all the makes I have access
to: GNU make, Solaris-2.3 make, SUNOS4 make.
-mb-
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Received on Fri Nov 17 1995 - 11:28:31 GMT