In article <199506051952.PAA14782@jfwhome.funhouse.com> jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com (John F. Woods) writes:
>I spent most of a day beating my head against the bizarre the SPICE build
>script was able to run only once; after that, it blew up early with make
>claiming not to be able to find the file "./makedefs" which was plainly in
>evidence.  The short description of the problem:  the SPICE build process
>puts its objects in an "obj" directory...
>
>Would there be any way to defeat make's obj/ behavior (for the benefit of
>large ugly systems that have their own way of doing things)?

setenv MAKEOBJDIR -I-dont-like-obj-dirs-

christos