[16138] in Athena Bugs
Re: athdir
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Aug 12 09:49:09 1998
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:49:07 -0400
To: Joseph Sokol-Margolis <seph@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16137] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
| However, athdir returns "" if the directory does not exist, this is
| suboptimal for makefiles, since I'd like the build to generate which
| ever directories is needs. so instead I used:
There is usually some difficulty associated with having Makefiles
execute code and store the value in variables; it's hard to do that
portably, conveniently, and reliably.
The whole point of 'athdir' is that it takes some complicted knowledge
that developers and users are not required to be cognizant of, and
puts it in a nice package. arch/${ATHENA_SYS}/bin, on the other hand,
is sufficiently less complex.
--jhawk
