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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 30 Jan 1997 12:19:51 GMT
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mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka) wrote:

>  big makefiles *might* be harder
> to handle - or, if they're properly written, they might not. extremely
> short makefiles indeed can be unmanageable, if they were whipped up in
> ten minutes around 2 A.M. some Saturday morning - i've seen a few
> miniature horror stories like that.

You mean

PROG=	cat

.include <bsd.prog.mk>

looks like a horror story? :-)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j