From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Make clen question Date: 30 Oct 1997 23:45:17 GMT Organization: Oxford University, England Lines: 17 Message-ID: <63b66d$kv2$3@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 32 DOT 19971030134056 DOT 0068b8f0 AT mail DOT santandersupernet DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 23:08:18 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Jose Luis Perandones Colino (joepc AT writeme DOT com) wrote: : I have a problem with a makefile. It have a variable with all the object files and i want erase all in a clen target. : : clean: : : del $(OBJS) : : But 4DOS say: line too long Download the fileutils (v2gnu/fil391b.zip IIRC) and then use `rm -f' instead of `del'. Naturally, this won't work on anyone else's system unless they too have fileutils. -- Regards, george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk