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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Using GNU make with ObjectAda
Date: 09 Sep 2003 09:38:27 -0400
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Guillaume Foliard <guifo@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> I feel my answer was too short, 

That often happens with newsgroups :).

> I'm a strong advocate at my workplace of Makefiles use
> instead of half-baked shell scripts, for all the hereabove tasks
> you're describing. Except interacting with a CM system, maybe. Could
> you elaborate on this one ? 

Well, most of my interactions with the CM system are thru Emacs, but I
use a Makefile to apply a tag for the final release; it helps to have
a documented way to do that.

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-- Stephe