Default rules for make

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1989Nov8.033800.5104 at monymsys.uucp>, david at monymsys.uucp (David Kozinn) writes:
> Here's the problem: I'm running Microport Sys V/386 and using the Green Hills
> C compiler. I would prefer that instead of the default value of "cc" being
> used for the $CC macro that gcc be used instead.  For the time being, when I
> make something I've done something like "make CC=gcc foobar", which works just
> fine, but is a minor annoyance.

How about:	CC=gcc; export CC    # in your .profile.

So:		make fobar	     # will use gcc for $(CC)

This should work fine under system V/386. 

> I've looked around for a makefile in some
> place logical (like /etc or /usr/lib) but can't find one. Aside from creating
> an alias (or equivalent) for make, is there some simple way that I can change
> these defaults? Thanks.

There isn't a default makefile on the system, the other rules are built into
make itself, so to modify them you need to be able to recompile make.


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