Making it easier to build and test new vms

Brian T. Rice water at tunes.org
Tue Aug 3 19:16:07 PDT 2004


Thanks, that is easier, and it works (well, for me, using GNU make); 
it's in CVS now. If someone knows a way to set this new variable on 
invocation of make, that would probably save even more time (no need to 
open an editor).

Ken Causey wrote:
> Currently I'm finding it useful to be able to build and keep handy a
> number of vms.  Rather than having to spend a minute or so editting the
> Makefile and nearly always forgetting to change something I've modified
> the Makefile so that the name of the vm is specified in only one place. 
> I personally find this useful, YMMV.  I'm no make expert.  This works
> with GNU make for me, it may not work with others, I have no idea one
> way or the other.
> 
> Ken
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