From: pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer)
Subject: Useful hints and tips #2: using !Make
Date: 14 Jun 93 15:31:47 GMT

1. Using Aasm
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 Having struggled for a while to get !Make to construct good makefiles
which used Aasm as a tool, I thought I'd pass on the solution: don't put
your AAsm sources in a directory called s.

 The reason for this is two-fold:

 1. It clashes with ObjAsm, so !Make struggles with the rule constructs
 2. There seems to be a hard-wired association in !Make which means that
    anything in a directory called s has to make something equivalent in a
    directory called o.

 What you call your directory is up to you, but I would suggest something
like x or z.

2. Making everything with one target
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 Another useful thing to do if you have multiple targets under one project
is to have another target which causes everything to be made in one go. To
do this, follow this recipe:

 1. Quit !Make if it is currently loaded.
 2. Load the make file into !Edit (or your favourite text editor).
 3. After the line

# Final targets:

add

@.All:   Target1 Target2 Target3
        Echo Target1 Target2 Target3

IMPORTANT!
  There are three spaces between "@.All:" and "Target1".
  There are eight spaces before "Echo".
  Both lines end in a space.

Hopefully you will understand make files enough to know what to type in
instead of Target1, Target2 and Target3 :-)

 4. Save the make file and double-click on it. If you have got it right,
    everything should now make. If you haven't, double-check the spacing
    and your typing.

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