Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:26:04 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Kay Hayen <kay AT edition DOT bonbit DOT org>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: make conflicts with turbopascal
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On 9 Mar 1997, Kay Hayen wrote:

> Obviously GNU-make has a lot more features over all over make's. I'd  
> like to have one that does not restrict me on what programs it can run,  
> any ideas on this?

The only programs DJGPP's Make cannot run are:

	1) 16-bit DPMI programs (like many Borland products).  This is
a limitation of the DPMI spec, and there's nothing you can do about
that short of getting a real-mode or a 32-bit DPMI program with the
same functionality.

	2) Some DOS-extended programs which use the DOS/4GW extender
crash if you spawn them from Make while using CWSDPMI as your DPMI
host (QDPMI and Windows don't have this problem).

That's all.  All other programs should run just fine.  Of course, some
features of the DJGPP Make are only available for DJGPP programs
(e.g., long command lines).