Re: supporting multiple independent checkouts of a project

[Nick Patavalis]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:31:25AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>   in addition, the project had a directory of .mk files that were
> being "include"d from other makefiles.  in order to be able to pick
> these up, i created a project-specific alias "fredmake":
> 
>   $ alias fredmake="make -I${FRED_DIR}/mkfiles"
> 
> where that top-level mkfiles/ directory contained all of those utility
> makefiles.
> 

This is certainly a possibility. Another, not involving the creation
of an alias, would be to replace every instance of

  include bar/foo.mk 

with 

  include $(FRED_DIR)/bar/foo.mk

/npat

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