In message <200201241941.OAA29019@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>, der Mouse writes:
> 
> Heh.  IMO make's support for obj/ is more of a pain than a blessing.
> For example, here's one of the hunks from my private patches to
> ghostscript (Aladdin Ghostscript 6.0):

Indeed.  It would be so much nicer if 'make' agreed with its manual page
and never defaulted the value of MAKEOBJDIR.  I.e. builds wanting the
magic should have to explicitly set MAKEOBJDIR=obj on the command-line
or in the environment.

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