Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 14:44:23 PDT
From: hardy%acid-rain AT lucid DOT com (Bob Hardy)
To: efiring AT hokulea DOT soest DOT hawaii DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: MAKE
Reply-To: hardy AT lucid DOT com

   I have tried to use the Thorsten Ohl gnuish MS-DOS port, but
   I have not been able to get an uncorrupted executable, and I
   don't have the MS-C compiler required to rebuild it.  Yes,
   the executable extracted from the official zoo archive, from
   wuarchive or iros1, is, as far as I can determine, simply corrupted.

I don't know what the problem is, but I certainly have had little to
complain of with the GNUish make:

   c:\>\bin\gnumake -v
   GNU Make version 3.58, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
   Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
   There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
   PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

   MS-DOS port (C) 1990 by Thorsten Ohl <td12 AT ddagsi3 DOT bitnet>
   this is a beta version, compiled Sep 10 1990, 01:56:20.

   gnumake.exe: No targets.  Stop.

   c:\>

I have also never had MSC in any version above 4.0, so I certainly
didn't compile the executable from scratch.  It almost certainly came
from wuarchive or SIMTEL20.  Note that it is a BETA copy from 1990,
however!  Such as this one, on wuarchive.wustl.edu, in the directory
/mirrors/msdos/gnuish/:

-rw-r--r--   1 root     archive    223462 Oct  4  1990 make358.arc

I've gone so far as to check the archive's contents:

Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
copying          12488  Crunched   46%      6821   4 Oct 90   3:26a  6ca3
make.exe        133990  Crunched   23%    104164  10 Sep 90   9:57a  6ed0
patches1        196771  Crunched   50%    100330  22 Sep 90   7:06p  2777
patches2         20257  Crunched   50%     10277  22 Sep 90   7:03p  fc54
readme            2725  Crunched   37%      1723  22 Sep 90   7:11p  be39
        ====  ========            ====  ========
Total      5    366231             40%    223315

...and the make.exe is exactly the same size, date and time as mine.
Try that one.

				-- Bob