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Subject: Re: Automatic "postalias"
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 09:09:18 CST

On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 04:03:35PM +0100, Jürgen Fluk wrote:
> This sounds like a FAQ to me, but I didn't find it in the FAQ nor mailing
> list nor docs:
>
> "postalias" (and "postmap") have to be called manually on change of source
> files.
> I just was trapped again in forgetting this. Couldn't this be solved
> automatically?

Use a Makefile:

all: aliases.db relocated.db

aliases.db: aliases.proto
                        postalias aliases.proto && mv aliases.proto.db aliases.db

%.db: %.proto
                        postmap $*.proto && mv $*.proto.db $*.db

clean:
                        rm *~ 

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