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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Make utilities for MS-DOS platforms
Message-ID: <1990Jun4.024443.2058@druid.uucp>
Date: 4 Jun 90 02:44:43 GMT
References: <15037@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <15037@reed.UUCP> minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar) writes:
>For various bizarre reasons, I do not like the make utility that comes with
>Turbo C 2.0.  As such, I've been searching around looking for better makes.
>(porting GNU make looked hellish).
>
I understand that GNU Make has already been ported to DOS.  If this is so
I strongly suggest that.  Failing that get one that includes source.  I do
all my development (both DOS and Unix) on my Unix system with vpix.  I have
banged on GNU Make until it now knows how to make .obj and .exe files from
either .c or .asm files and I now can use a single source tree to create
executables for both systems.  This would have been clumsy and difficult if
not impossible under a make that I couldn't modify.

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