Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 17:12:41 EST
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com
Cc: opheys AT kirk DOT fmi DOT uni-passau DOT de, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Need recommendation of good MAKE utility
Status: O

>Which brings me to the reason I sent this to the mailing list instead
>of just to Thomas.  The GNUISH convention strikes me as being better
>than the "response file" method of passing long command lines, since
>it involves only memory rather than disk access.  Are there drawbacks
>to the GNUISH method that I'm not aware of?  If not, could we get go32
>to handle this method in addition to the "response file" method?  I'd
>be willing to write the code, but I don't have an C compiler other
>than DJGPP, so I can't modify the extender.

My hope was to get a version of Make that not only understood how to
pass long command lines to go32 programs (gcc.exe does it all the
time), but also recognized a.out format executables and supplied the
go32 automatically.  This would help with unix Makefiles that do the
compile and then expect to be able to run the executable directly.

Does anyone know how to get a set of sources that builds the Gnuish
Make?  That would be the best starting point, although I don't have
time to do it myself (that's what loyal followers are for :-))

DJ
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