Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site vaxine.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!ptw From: ptw@vaxine.UUCP (P. T. Withington) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: improved ? make Message-ID: <202@vaxine.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 07:51:38 EST Article-I.D.: vaxine.202 Posted: Fri Feb 24 07:51:38 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 02:56:27 EST Organization: Automatix Inc., Billerica, MA Lines: 17 The augmented make that came with sysIII (and V?) has some built-in rules of the form: .c~.c: $(GET) $(GETFLAGS) -p $< > $*.c which have the unfortunate consequence of clobbering a file you have out for editing any time someone touches the s. file (e.g., makes a branch, does an admin). Can anyone explain the rationale for "-p >"? Is this soley to support makes in remote directories? Couldn't the same effect be had by: .c~.c: cd $(*D); $(GET) $(GETFLAGS) $$old/$(