#! /usr/sbin/smake

[Chris Wagner]

In article <9104250146.AA25593 at karron.med.nyu.edu>, Dan
Karron at UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
> 
> I just observed that if the above comment was put into a makefile,
> in the first character, like a shell directive,
> then when you type make, make will use that program to
> process the makefile, instead of the default make.
> 
> This is a really useful feature. I never noticed it in the documentation.
> 
> In this way, my makefiles can know that they are to be processed
> by , say pmake or smake instead of the default make.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
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This was put into 3.3 - at firsxt to help us here at SGI start
to migrate to smake/ parallel make - this way as makefiles
are modified to run in parallel (many just plain work) we can
add #!smake

The make man page has had alot of work done to it in 3.3 - it documents
this feature as well as sinclude (include a file but don't whine about
it not being there), as well as documentation for such arcane features
as VPATH, etc.



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Chris Wagner (jwag at sgi.com)