jmsellens@watmath.waterloo.edu (09/25/89)
From: John M Sellens <jmsellens> This used to be in every Makefile-body: # if $(package_dependencies) is empty, # then the following section should be deleted @-for name in $(package_dependencies); do\ if [ ! -d ${Software}/$${name} ]; then \ echo "The $${name} package is required for the proper";\ echo " operation of this package; please install it.";\ fi \ done and has now been replaced by xh-check-package-dependencies $(package-dependencies) That for is ugly, uses @, uses - (both very despicable things to use in a Makefile), caused ugly things like this: *** Error code 1 (ignored) to appear in the middle of nowhere, and was yet one more thing to customize in a Makefile-body. Man page created in /software/xhier/man/man8. As xhier has no source directory, this was all done under /software/xhier.