cc design flaw

[Jeffrey E. F. Friedl]

In article <4700028 at m.cs.uiuc.edu>, wsmith at m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> The cc compiler in Berkeley unixes leaves .o files in the current
> directory even when the source file is in different directory.
> 
> cc -c File/afile.c
> 
> will leave the .o file at ./afile.o
> 
> This makes it awkward to build a default .c.o rule for make that will behave
> correctly when I have several versions of the same files in different sub-
> directories.  Encore's Multimax make solves this problem, but since it is
> an extension to make, the make files will not port to other machines.

I have no problems with this (if I understand the problem -- maybe not)
by using the rule:
    .c.o: ; $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $*.c

As an example:

    +---------------------------------------------
    |  Script started on Sun Nov 13 23:39:05 1988
    |  % cat makefile
    |  .c.o: ; $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $*.c
    |  
    |  D=foo
    |  COBJS=$D/this.o $D/that.o $D/theother.o
    |  
    |  target: $(COBJS)
    |          @echo final link here
    |  % make 
    |  /bin/cc  -c -o foo/this.o foo/this.c
    |  /bin/cc  -c -o foo/that.o foo/that.c
    |  /bin/cc  -c -o foo/theother.o foo/theother.c
    |  final link here
    |  %
    |  script done on Sun Nov 13 23:39:49 1988
    +--------------------------------------------

I've found that this works under BSD4.3 and SunOS 4.0, but not under
ULTRIX V2.3 or NCUBE's AXIS (pseudo-UNIX).  The latter don't allow
the -o file to be certain things (such as ".o", ".c" and/or ".a").
The former require the source and target to differ, and perhaps that
the target not end with ".c".  

Seems poeple do it different ways (I like the BSD/Sun way -- the "cc" for
a cross compiler I wrote does it that way). Maybe you're working with one
of "the others".  If not, try the above.
	*jeff*
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