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From: ferris@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Richard T. Ferris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Borland's Make utility
Summary: Why won't it work?
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Date: 18 May 91 01:10:05 GMT
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I have written a simple make file in Unix which doesn't seem to
be writeable using the Borland DOS make utility.  Here is a simple
modified file lister makefile which works under Unix:

FILES = x y z 

list: $(FILES)
     ls $?
     touch list

The problem seems to be that there is no $? macro variable in the
Borland make.  Is this right?  I know I could do this by having a
seperate rule for each file but I am trying to be a bit more general.

Thanks for the help.
--RF
Richard Ferris
ferris@grad1.cis.upenn.edu