From:	Michael Castle <mcastle AT umr DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: ndmake and @ (my 10 yen's worth)
To:	turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp (Stephen Turnbull)
Date:	Thu, 17 Feb 1994 17:39:00 -0600 (CST)
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 
> I used to use NDMake, but I found it choked on the Ghostscript
> makefiles (I don't remember why), so I switched to GNU Make.  A recent
> post mentioned a real-mode port of GNU Make 3.70 which supposedly
> automagically partially supports long command lines (I guess that the
> reason the support is partial is that the command itself must support
> the response file argument, and the make can't do anything about
> that).
>     An alternative would be to get a copy of the DOS version of sh.  I
> forget the zip file name, but it was something like sh200.zip, and I'm
> sure I saw it on a SIMTEL mirror.  There are also commercial tools
> with shells that support this kind of long command line.
>     --Steve
> 


wow.. i like how things come round full circle :->



go32 was modified to handle the method that this port of gnu make uses to
pass command lines.. I *think* this was adone around v1.07 or so....

From dj's post, I *assume* that system() (or is it spawn() now?) now
automagically does this as well?

for Gnu make, you would do something like:

set longargs gcc:ar:ld:..... 

and so on... listing all the djgpp programs you've around that will get
called from make... (rm might also be a good one).  
Make would then call the subprogram by passing the cmd line parms via
environment variables....  So actually.. go32 programs supports 3 methods
of getting arguments:  command line, response files, and this gnumake
method of using environment variables...

I may be alittle off on the specific use of the longargs environemnt
vars... it's been a while ... check the email archives....


Also, this gnu make program does have some problems.... it would often lock
up on me... requiring a reboot... your mileage may vary... again... read
the email archives for further discussion on this many many months back....

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