Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!IRO.UMontreal.CA!pinard From: pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: GNUish MS-DOS [was: Re: Unix compatable make for MSDOS] Message-ID: Date: 20 Aug 90 16:50:16 GMT References: <5098@uafhp.uark.edu> <13925@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <5114@uafhp.uark.edu> <1990Aug18.120614.9458@mlb.semi.harris.com> Sender: news@IRO.UMontreal.CA Organization: Universite' de Montre'al Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: routh@eltanin.rtp.semi.harris.com's message of 18 Aug 90 12:06:14 GMT In article <1990Aug18.120614.9458@mlb.semi.harris.com> routh@eltanin.rtp.semi.harris.com (Kevin Routh x622) writes: I am looking for a Unix compatable "make" utility for MSDOS. [...] Please help me find a good Unix "make" for MSDOS. There is now a port to DOS of GNU make, made by Thorsten Ohl, in Germany, very well adapted for MS-DOS limitations: reponse files for LIB and LINK, auto-swap out of the way, and other good ideas. Thorsten also adapted several of the other GNU tools, among which file utilities. I got the feeling, as a user, that the ports are of high quality. I am trying to find a way to make Thorsten's work available in this continent. A few people suggested me to contact Bill Davidsen and ask him to *post* binaries to Usenet, but none gave me his email address (I do not have experience in posting to moderated newsgroups, and it could well be that all these binaries require some moderation :-). It would also be nice to have some well known archive sites or servers as repositories for binaries and diffs (sources are in fact diffs to prep official releases), both ftp and uucp based. Would some willing ftp site wizards contact me, preferably well known and available sites? I cannot really reply myself to all and every of the many requests I have for these tools. The idea is to set up a careful, congruent setup on MS-DOS for GNU tools, available in binary form. Thorsten call this his `GNUish MS-DOS' project! I let you know, in this group, of any actions taken as a consequence of this message/request. -- Franc,ois Pinard ``Vivement GNU!'' pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (514) 588-4656 cp 886 L'Epiphanie (Qc) J0K 1J0 ...!uunet!iros1!pinard