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From: minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,(???))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Make utilities for MS-DOS platforms
Summary: What do you use?
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Date: 2 Jun 90 22:34:39 GMT
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Reply-To: minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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What do people out there in net.land use for a make utility? Im interested
specifically in people who do lots of C programming from the command line
(not an integrated environment) and/or assembly programming.

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).

  Currently, I've landed on a utility that claims to be a more-or-less direct
port of standard UN*X make, with some obvious MS-DOS corrections. I was
fairly happy with it until a couple of make files (like the one that came
with Fractint v12 source code) had to be diddled to work, and that I could
never get a .asm.obj suffix rule to work at all. So, I'm not totally happy
with this one.

What do people out there use? I would think an ideal solution would be a
free/shareware utility that looked as close to UN*X make as possible, but
I'm interested in anything.