From: Morten Welinder <terra AT diku DOT dk>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 17:14:37 +0100
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Discontinuing _one_ of the Gnu Make ports.


This is to announce that I am discontinuing my port of Gnu Make
to MsDog.  The latest version found in archives out there (3.71
I thin as gmake371.zip) will remain there.  Known problems with
this is that VPATH does not work when Gnu Make is compiled with
Turbo C.

To avoid confusion: this discontinuation is for my port only.
In particular that means that DJ's port (found where Djgpp is
found) is unaffected by this.

The force of my port over DJ's is that the memory usage (Turbo C
compiled version only) is on the order of 10K when running the
commands the makefile specifies.  Djgpp version 2 (to be beta-
released Real Soon[tm]) will produce programs that have a low-
memory `foot print' of roughly the same size.  This means that
DJ's port will automatically catch up here, and since that is
DJ's port's only really weak point I see no reason to continue
my line of the game.

My port also had the ability to automatically detect programs
that could accept (_argc, _argv) environment style long command
lines.  This does seem very important in practice -- only Micro-
soft C programs benefit -- and could be built into libc eventually.

Morten Welinder
terra AT diku DOT dk


PS: This also gives me time for some fun: help me with my voting
for the future value of pi, see http://www.diku.dk/~terra/pi.html