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From: Roland Exler <R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
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Subject: Re: Makefiles on DOS
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 08:19:15 -0700
Organization: Institute for el. Measurement, University of Linz, Austria
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Richard Memory wrote:
> If I don't use macros in the command (ie. hardcode everything), and
> have everything all in one directory it works fine. If I try to
> start using mutiple directorys for everything, for example, a source
> directory, an object file directory, an executable directory, etc.
> the make utility will stop. I have tried a variety of different
> things with no success. My guess is that make doesn't like the
> backslash that dos uses, but I don't know how to get around it.

'make' coming with djgpp is a unix-like program, so using slashes is the 
better way. You should also use slashes in your programs eg. for 
#include directives, they compile fine with most dos C-compilers and 
you've less to change switching to unix-environment.

Roland

PS: on calls to dos-commands like copy use the 'subst' feature of make   
  like this: copy $(subst /,\,$^) $(subst /,\,$@)

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