mike@bria (01/20/91)
In article <27@christmas.UUCP> rtm@island.COM (Richard Minner) writes: >Actually, I think it could really be handled by a smart enough editor, >assuming an OS with decent directory structure. If an editor allowed >you to group several `physical' files together as one `logical' file >for editing, it would make maintaining such broken up libraries much >easier. (I've occasionally resorted to catting files together, editing, >then breaking them apart.) Why not simply write a program that looks for a special comment, such as /*FUNCTION fubar*/ that would extract the code into a file, fubar.c, stop when the next /*FUNCTION*/ comment was found, compile fubar.c, and add it to a library? You could compare the date of the source with the date of the object to see if recompilation is really needed. -- Michael Stefanik, Systems Engineer (JOAT), Briareus Corporation UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike -- technoignorami (tek'no-ig'no-ram`i) a group of individuals that are constantly found to be saying things like "Well, it works on my DOS machine ..."