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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Slave shell in nmake
Message-ID: <3361@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 27 Jan 88 22:19:41 GMT
References: <367@dlhpedg.co.uk> <190@tijc02.UUCP>
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In article <190@tijc02.UUCP> djm408@tijc02.UUCP (David Marks         ) writes:

>The two major advantages of nmake(1) as I see it, are the single shell accross
>all rules, and the fact that it knows about multiple directories.

What happened to:
	* Automatic dependency checking (ie, no need to specify #include
		dependencies)
	* A compiled Makefile (no need to re-parse every time)
	* Automatic generation of -D and -I flags
	* Built-in rules for archives, yacc & lex files, etc.
	* Metarules which act as rule template or "macros"

	etc. etc.
    
    Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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