conrad@nbires.UUCP (M. Conrad Geiger) (08/09/84)
Does anyone out there have or know about a good replacement for "make"? I am looking for one and would appreciate any responses. Conrad Geiger NBI P.O. Box 9001 Boulder, Colorado (303) 938-2986 network address ------> nbires!yaz!conrad
sean@ukecc.UUCP (Sean Casey) (08/08/86)
I need some help with make. I've pored over the documentation, but it seems that no matter what I try I can't get it to do what I want. Could somebody please help me out? I have some nroff source files in a directory. I want to conditionally compile them and place the results in another directory. The end result should look something like this: % ls subject1.ms subject2.ms subject3.ms subject4.ms % ls ../docsdir % % make nroff -ms subject1.ms | myprog > ../docsdir/subject1 nroff -ms subject2.ms | myprog > ../docsdir/subject2 nroff -ms subject3.ms | myprog > ../docsdir/subject3 nroff -ms subject4.ms | myprog > ../docsdir/subject4 % touch subject2.ms % make nroff -ms subject2.ms | myprog > ../docsdir/subject2 % This doesn't sound all that complicated for someone that really knows make. I've tried .SUFFIXES: .ms:, changing .DEFAULT, etc. Help! Sean
khasin@hcrvx2.UUCP (Kha Sin Teow) (08/15/86)
In article <567@ukecc.UUCP> sean@ukecc.UUCP (Sean Casey) writes: >I need some help with make. I've pored over the documentation, but >it seems that no matter what I try I can't get it to do what I want. >Could somebody please help me out? > ... although i don't have a complete solution to your problem, i have done something similar to what you are trying to do. typically i maintained a processed document file in the same directory as the source, except that it is appended with a different suffix. using your sample of file names: subject1.ms subject2.ms i would put the processed files into: subject1.doc subject2.doc Consequently, the Makefile would look something like this: # Make file for processing subject documents .SUFFIXES .doc .ms # .ms.doc: nroff -ms $*.ms | myprog > $*.doc If you must keep *.doc in a separate subdirectory, you could "mv" or "ln" them. Otherwise, you would have to explicitly specify the depedency of each processed file and its source: # another make file line docsdir/subject1.doc: subject1.ms nroff -ms ... which is not as "elegant" as the previous setup. Hope this help. Kha Sin TEOW, HCR. Toronto.