Make: Compiling source code from a different directory.

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <404 at massey.ac.nz>, KSpagnol at massey (Ken Spagnolo) writes:
[...cannot get make to grok '%' templates...]
| It works fine on the Sun, but when I tried it on our new DECstation 3100,
| it didn't work.  Does anyone know of another way to achieve this?  No
| matter what I try, I get "Don't know how to make target".  Thanx a lot.

Good old V7 make (probably what's on your DECstation), doesn't grok
'%' templates.  Get GNU Make (for free!) and use that instead.

Just another make hacker,
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