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From:	lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: More Make Woes
Date:	28 May 1996 22:57:06 GMT
Organization:	Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us wrote:
: Thinking furiously, Rain Ouellet wrote:
: > 
: > Perhaps someone can figure this one out.  I've been using makefiles
: > for ages with setups similar to the following:
: > 
: > CC = MyCompiler
: > 
: > ..c.obj:

: Should not the line above read:

: .c.obj

: instead???

It does (at least with my newsreader). It seems to be a common problem with
some NNTP-based newsreaders that they don't convert double dots correctly
(since a single dot denotes EOF for a NNTP-article, all lines starting with
a dot have that one duplicated).

: I've never before seen a double period used to start such lines.
: If not that, then make sure that the next line begins with a TAB character.

: >    $(CC) -c $<

Yes, that was it, apparently.


bye, Alexander

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