Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Should I use dmake? Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 90 21:57:10 GMT References: <4034@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: teachk In-reply-to: tr@samadams.princeton.edu's message of 26 Oct 90 21:51:46 GMT On 26 Oct 90 21:51:46 GMT, tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) said: tr> There is a package in comp.sources.misc called dmake which is tr> supposed to run on several operating systems. I use UNIX and DOS. tr> Currently I am happy with NDMAKE by Don Kneller. It runs under DOS tr> and it emulates just about all of UNIX's make. tr> Is there a reason I should switch to DMAKE? It would take some tr> trouble to download and compile. Well, dmake is very very portable, and has some significant and very useful extensions, as well as being System V make compatible (which is not so important for me). it is also being actively supported by its author. It is also quite a bit more elegant than other extended makes I have seen, e.g. GNU make, if if not quite as cake, which is however a world apart. -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk