>> I don't particularly want to spend three weeks reading through the
>> obtuse reference manual. It would be quicker to just keep typing this
>> stuff by hand. I just wondered whether somebody already happens to know
>> the answer to this (presumably) very common problem...
>
> Fish, eating, learning,... all that old metaphore.

Well yes, if I was likely to use make ever again, learning how it works 
might be beneficial. Since I'm most unlikely to ever touch it again... 
it's rather a lot of effort for little benefit.

> here a little makefile for gnu-make, but YMMV, to generate png picture
> from every dot file in the current directory.
>
> I guess you can adapt it for your c++ compilation.
> (hint: dot -o outputfile inputfile)

> all: $(patsubst %.dot,%.png,$(wildcard *.dot))
>
> .SUFFIXES: .dot .png
> .dot.png:
> 	dot -Tpng -o $@ $<

Hmm, never mind. Apparently renaming all the *.c++ files to *.cpp 
enables Make to automatically figure out what to do. Go figure.

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