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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 22:52:50 +0100
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Jose Luis Perandones Colino <joepc AT writeme DOT com>
Subject: Re: Make clen question
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 14:29 2/11/97 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Jose Luis Perandones Colino wrote:
>
>> I have a problem with a makefile. It have a variable with all the
>> object files and i want erase all in a clean target.
>> 
>> clean:
>> 
>> 	del $(OBJS)
>> 
>> But 4DOS say: line too long
>
>Try this:
>
>	clean:
>		for %f in ($(OBJS)) do if exist %f del %f
>
>Does this solve the problem?
Not, same problem, this generate a line more long (add for, do, if, etc).

>
>Btw, I don't understand how that original line was supposed to work at
>all, since DEL only accepts a single argument, at least in
>COMMAND.COM.
>
4DOS del suport multiple files as arguments.

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