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From: jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
Subject: Should 'make' for AOS/VS look like Unix-make?
Message-ID: <115@harald.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 89 09:49:11 GMT
Organization: RUC - Roskilde University Center, Denmark
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If one was to port a make-program to AOS/VS, how much should the
interface be changed? I mean, should one accept '/switches' instead
of '-options'? Should the 'newline-escape' be changed from '\' to '&'?

One thing which has puzzled me, is how to express things like:

  $ make XLIBS="x1.a x2.a x3.a"

Should it be

  ) make XLIBS/DEFINE=x1.lb+x2.lb+x3.lb

to avoid the CLI splitting it up into seperate args? Doing otherwise
would require more parsing. Is it worth it?

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