[oclug] My "Achillies Heel" Make files...

[John Dowd]

Gawd, I hate them!!

I have a question to anyone out ther who has worked with them and has also 
worked with the linux kernel.

I've been working on an embedded release of linux for a particular PPC based 
card and I've placed the distribution into a repository system called 
"bitkeeper". It uses SCCS as its local repository control system and places a 
SCCS directory of each directory of the source code tree. When I do a "make 
zImage" it walks the tree including the "SCCS" directories which causes all 
sorts of problems. I had always thought that "make" knew about RCS and SCCS 
and would ignore these directories without any special commands in the 
makefile. I'm obviously wrong and I'm wondering what I have to do to get it 
to ignore these directories. There is also a "Bitkeeper" directory at the top 
I will have to exclude from walking through the tree as well.

							Cheers!!
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                                                          John Dowd
                                                          jdowd at sympatico.ca