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Re: MAKEDEV_plp?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Jun 3 16:37:53 1999
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To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jun 1999 15:45:25 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 16:37:45 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> I still don't understand why it logged what looked like a script
Fwiw...
MAKEDEV is a make script, i.e. a makefile invoked as a command (its
first line is '#!/sbin/make -kf'). The commands to make the plp target
are the shell commands to create the symlinks; make writes these to
standard output, as it normally does (unless silenced).
Bob
