A question on RCS and GNU-make

[Keith Refson]

amoffat at sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Andrew Moffat) asks:
> The RCS doco states: "MAKE has been extended with an auto-checkout
> feature for RCS".  Is this referring to GNU-make, or some other
> version of make?

In the absence of a modified make, the targets

%.c:		RCS/%.c,v
		co $@

%.h:		RCS/%.h,v
		co $@

will do the trick using Sun's make.
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