john@tifsie.UUCP (John Maline) (01/23/88)
I am searching for a 'make' utility that runs under MS-DOS and provides the capability to search a user-definable list of directories for source code. What I want to do is have directories with official released code and private 'test' directories containing only files that need to be modified for a particular program change/bug fix. You'd tell 'make' to search first in your test directories, then the 'official' directories. This would cause your modified sources to be used and anything else comes from the 'real' code. For example: SEARCHDIRS=\project\testdir;\project\realdir x.obj: x.c y.h ... If you've got a x.c in 'testdir', that's the one that's picked (ie $* expands to '\project\testdir\x' and so on). I've seen a similar feature that uses the 'VPATH' variable to find dependants in one of the directories specified in VPATH, but it doesn't include the directory in $* and company. If anyone knows of such a utility, I'd like to hear about it. Commercial or public domain (it's for my company). Please reply by EMAIL. I will forward or post the information if there is interest. Thank you for your support, John Maline UUCP: ut-sally!im4u!ti-csl!tifsie!john Texas Instruments sun!texsun!ti-csl!tifsie!john PO Box 655012 M/S 3618 uiucdcs!convex!smu!tifsie!john Dallas, TX 75265 Voice: (214)995-3575 BIX: jwmaline -- John Maline UUCP: ut-sally!im4u!ti-csl!tifsie!john Texas Instruments sun!texsun!ti-csl!tifsie!john PO Box 655012 M/S 3618 uiucdcs!convex!smu!tifsie!john Dallas, TX 75265 Voice: (214)995-3575 BIX: jwmaline