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From: sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan)
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Subject: Re: Info about Polytron Make
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Date: 26 Apr 89 21:03:40 GMT
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In article <17578@cup.portal.com> Devin_E_Ben-Hur@cup.portal.com writes:
>
>Polytron may offer some additional bells and whistles, but Borland's make
>(not thier integrated "project" facility) has supported file inclusion
>and conditional directives since v1.0.  Yes, very handy for boiler plate
>and producing multiple versions (debug, production, demo, etc.) from common
>makefiles.  Best of all, it's free with the compiler.

But Borland's make (and the public domain makes I've used) are broken in
the following way:  they do not properly handle transitive implicit
dependencies.  E.g.

.a.b:
	...
.b.c:
	...

If a .b file exists then they remake things correctly, but cannot
rebuild everything from a .a file with no .b file in existence.  Check
it out.

Does anyone know of a public domain make which handles this properly??

Fred Sullivan				SUNY at Binghamton
Dept. Math. Sciences			Binghamton, NY 13903
					sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu
First you make a roux!