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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 17:55:19 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Jens-Uwe Mager wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 07:07:00AM -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> > IIRC it's a GNUmake "exclusive". It's certainly not in most BSD (4.4)
> > makes.
> >
> > I'd prefer we not have to force people to use gmake.
> >
> > David Reid wrote:
> > >
> > > Just how non-portable is VPATH?
> > >
> > > d.
> 
> It is from the System V make. But it is so useful that I cannot believe
> the BSD folks don't do it.

Believe it.

Cheers,

Ben.

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