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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Make utilities
Message-ID: <10965@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Sep 89 04:53:33 GMT
References: <59C397D8DBBF60109C@HMCVAX.BITNET>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <59C397D8DBBF60109C@HMCVAX.BITNET> SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX.BITNET ("Scott, part time fuzzy") writes:
>  I have just started using Orca/C, and am interested in a make utility.  (I am
>porting a few interesting programs from Unix, and I have not yet figured out an
>easy way to translate the commands in a unix makefile to APW commands that the
>shell will be happy with.  Any comments appreciated.

Probably your best bet is to get 360 MicroSystems' File Utilities II,
which includes a viable "make" adapted to the APW/Orca environment,
"grep", and something else I've forgotten ("find" maybe?).  They're not
exact clones of the UNIX utilities but are close enough to be useful.

An alternative is to create a shell script (EXEC file), but that way
you'd be recompiling everything every time.  Somebody once posted an
APW/Orca command that could be used to compare the relative ages of
two files, for use in such shell scripts to avoid unecessary operations.