Index: trunk/magic/Makefile
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--- trunk/magic/Makefile	(revision 28066)
+++ trunk/magic/Makefile	(revision 28093)
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
+
+MAGIC_DIR = ~/magic_tarballs
 
 # necessary support for libQt (only used by magic)
 QTDIR = qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.1
-QTSRC = ~/magic_tarballs/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.1.tar.gz
+QTSRC = $(MAGIC_DIR)/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.1.tar.gz
 QTDEP := $(shell test -f $(QTSRC) && echo $(QTSRC))
 
@@ -20,6 +22,6 @@
 update:
 # get the source code (replace this with SVN interactions)
-	tar xvzf ~/magic.tgz
-	tar xvzf ~/ssa-core-cpp.tgz
+	tar xvzf $(MAGIC_DIR)/magic.tgz
+	tar xvzf $(MAGIC_DIR)/ssa-core-cpp.tgz
 	tar xvzf $(QTSRC)
 	cp Makefile.magic magic/Makefile.magic