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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Any good makes out there?
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Date: 10 Feb 89 07:15:43 GMT
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:I need a new make.
:
:Aztec make doesn't use Execute(), which is a problem for the WShell
:environment (if you run patchdos, Execute will use NewShell, which is
:faster, searches REXX:, and uses the WShell resident stuff).
:
:LMK from lattice isn't sufficiently compatible with unix make (e.g., it
:won't recompile a .c file after you edit it, which is kinda weird).
:
:Anyone using a reliable, compatible make which uses Execute?
:
:Thanks.
:	jimm

	Gee Jim, I don't know of any Make's that *can* use Execute(), god
knows I've tried.  The problem, of course, is that one needs to retrieve the
exit code ...

	I would gladly use Execute() if I could retrieve the exit code.

	That is, assuming the compiler makers fix their exit() code properly.
I don't know about Lattice, but Aztec does NOT set the DOS exit code fields
(so, for example, even if I did use Execute() and it did return the exit code,
it would still not work with Aztec's cc & other utilities, or any programs
I write).

					-Matt