From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Nov  3 23:28:03 2000
Subject: mkoctfile suggestion
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Andy Adler <en254 at freenet dot carleton dot ca>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:27:53 -0600

On  3-Nov-2000, Andy Adler <en254 at freenet dot carleton dot ca> wrote:

| I suggest that the -c option be added to mkoctfile.
| This would have the same effect as with gcc, ie
| to compile to object but not link:
| 
| So, for example, you could do
| An:~/octave/sparse> mkoctfile -c make_sparse.cc -ISuperLU/SRC/
| An:~/octave/sparse> mkoctfile make_sparse.o -lsuperlu -L.
| 
| This would allow it to be nicely used in Makefiles,
| so that large projects with multiple source
| files don't need to be recompiled from scratch
| each time.

I made these changes.  BTW, the ultimate source file for this script
is mkoctfile.in, so that's where the changes really belong.

Thanks,

jwe