To add my own to this argument, I think that we could benifit
from a set of makefiles that took a commandline like the following:

make CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc XCFLAGS=-pipe XTRAOBJ=myfunc.o

	Where I work, most of our makefiles would take this to mean
that we should compile with the different compiler (it's often how we
invoke purify), add -pipe to the other default CFLAGS and add the
object 'myfunc.o' to the compile list (this is more useful in a single
program build than a global one).

	This would allow us to taylor the build for each maachine we
use very easily (it could also be used to specify build and source
directories).

Dave.

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