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On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:52:08PM -0600, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> Let me see if I have all this straight:
> 
> (1) Change Rules.make to use "new style" variables as its native form.
>     (1A) Add a "Compat.make" for old style Makefiles, and
>     (1B) Continue to convert all the remaining old style Makefiles.

This is difficult because old-style makefiles can do much more magic
then list-style ones.  But after a bit more thinking it looks like is
is possible ... (yeah I said otherwise some time ago).

	Christoph

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