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Dan Strick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: Does anyone know where this feature came from? The .OBJDIR variable was
: recognized by the pmake distributed with 4.4 BSD, but the man page for
: that version of make does not mention the gratuitous magic rules for
: changing the make working directory. The older make program found in
: 4.3 BSD does not seem to use the .OBJDIR variable at all.
:
: This feature is not mentioned in the pmake tutorial found in
: /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make. Is it a FreeBSD-ism?
Both FreeBSD and NetBSD have this feature. Early in the FreeBSD life
cycle, it was imported from NetBSD shortly after the 2.0 tree was
imported from 4.4-lite.
Warner
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