In article <aouiho$1lna$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Marc Kealy says...
>> >    .cpp.dep:
>> >        makedep -s $*.cpp >$*.dep
>> >
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>> i don't think $* should expand, cuz it's not a macro?
>
>It actually expands to the current target's name and path, without the extension.  (Look in the smake docs).
>

didn't realize that, good to know!  seems like as with c/c++ that make file programming can be frustrating sometimes... good luck.

L8r,
bw