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From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: Strange config(8) behaviour
Message-ID: <1993May14.160458.9551@uvm.edu>
Keywords: config ddb
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References: <1993May14.153143.24819@rtf.bt.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 16:04:58 GMT
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In article <1993May14.153143.24819@rtf.bt.co.uk> duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain) writes:
>	If you remove the "options DDB" it will create a "ddb.h" file with
>	"#define NDDB 0" in it!

Don't use `options DDB'.  Use `pseudo-device DDB'.

This has the nice benefit that `make depend' keeps track of the files
which depend on DDB for you, rather than having to do it manually.

-GAWollman

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