From:	mcastle AT cs DOT umr DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Make
To:	hamlin AT grits DOT valdosta DOT peachnet DOT edu (Jon Hamlin)
Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 92 9:58:30 CST
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 
> 
> This question is probably frequently asked (I hope I'm not missing the obvious).
> I've downloaded all of the GCC binaries (all of it) from grape.ecs...
> 
> I can't find the make program.  Does it have to be build from something else?

I guess it is time for someone to take the incentive, and build gnu make
using djgpp.  I imagine that most of the diffs for the gnuish port would be
of help in taking care of all the non  multitasking problems of dos (gnu make
tries to speed up comipilation by spawning multiple builds and keeps track of
system usage so as not to bog down the system. I believe it can also take a
list of hosts, and start compilations on remote systems to distribute the
processesing.  Naturally, you can't do this under dos).  Probably the only
thing that would be left to do would be to modify the call to system() to pass 
long command lines via response files or command environment variables.

So, who wants to light the torch?  (not me, school is more important right now,
I've already done to many 'other' projects this semester to afford to devote
time to such a project).

mrc (who once tried to build gnu make with djgccc 1.00 and failed miserably :-)

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