Re: source dependencies cleanup? (fwd)

Jim Nance (jlnance@avanticorp.com)
Thu, 5 Dec 1996 07:53:38 -0500 (EST)

> Good idea. It might also be a good idea to look for this as an
> environmental variable, so that we wouldn't have to do
>
> make TOP_TREE=/usr/tmp/builtin config
> make TOP_TREE=/usr/tmp/builtin zlilo
> make TOP_TREE=/usr/tmp/builtin modules
> make TOP_TREE=/usr/tmp/builtin modules_install

The wonderful thing about make is that if you have an environment variable
called TOP_TREE, make will use it. If you specify TOP_TREE on the command
line, it will override the environment variable.

Jim