From: Dave Mason <dmason AT plg DOT uwaterloo DOT ca>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Thanks! - help on GNU Make/MS C++
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 22:19:29 -0400

> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 20:28:57 -0400
> From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
> 
> GNU Make is good of course, and if you can get it to work, maybe you
> should stay with it.
>     It's not something I use, but DMake has been highly recommended
> (by its author, I believe :-) in the past.  It *is* highly
> configurable (I figured that much out), so once you get it going you
> can probably create configuration files that work almost
> automatically across environments.

I've also used it with djgpp.  Works very well.  I *do* know the
author, but also know lots of people who swear by dmake (and no-one
who swears *at* it :-).

>     Your mileage may vary, of course, and setting it up is
> non-trivial, that's why I returned to GNU Make.  But the effort migth
> be worth it if you're working in several wildly different environments
> simultaneously (apparently that was the motivation for creating
> DMake.)

Actually, for me, it worked out of the box, apart from changing the
\etc\startup.mk file to name the various programs that  I wanted it to
run (like CC = gcc, etc.).

>     It's available at ftp://watmsg.uwaterloo.ca/pub/dmake/, according
> to the readme.

This is an old readme.  It is actually at ftp://plg.uwaterloo.ca/pub/dmake/

../Dave