From:	jcook AT kla DOT com ()
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	DJGPP make (3.73) usable as standalone exe?
Date:	22 Oct 1996 00:19:18 GMT
Organization:	KLA Instruments
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Hi.

I need a make utility to maintain builds using non-DJGPP 
tools (Motorola DSP56000 tools, if you must know!).  
This is a 'stand-alone' use of make and, provided I run 
it in a DPMI environment (Windows 3.1 DOS box, Windows NT 
console), it seems that I should be able to use the DJGPP 
make.exe executable (3.73) for this purpose without 
installing of the rest of the DJGPP package.  I have found 
make to work in this way using Windows 3.1 (although perhaps 
it is not supposed to work this way), but have not yet tried 
it under NT.  

Does make 3.73 in fact work as a standalone binary for parsing 
makefiles, without invoking any other DJGPP utilities? 
Are there any caveats to using make this way?  

Thanks,

John Cook

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