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From: hollen@eta.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Unix-compatible "make" for MS-DOS
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Date: 3 May 89 19:31:50 GMT
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From article <11053@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, by drk@athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr):
> I have been comparing the "make" program that comes with Borland
> Turbo C 2.0 with the "make" on Sun Unix (v. 3.5) and have found it
> to be largely incompatible.  Can anyone recommend a "make" that is
> very closely compatible with Unix "make"?  I'd prefer something
> that's public-domain or shareware, but I might consider commercial
> offerings as well.  (The chief incompatibilities that I've encountered
> are the syntax for file inclusion, lack of built-in implicit rules
> like ".c.obj" in Borland's make, a serious bug in Borland's make
> involving the definition of macros within !include'd files, and
> the handling of shell commands--especially cd--within action lines.)
> 		David R. Kohr, M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory
> 	email:	KOHR@LL.LL.MIT.EDU (preferred) OR drk@athena.mit.edu
> 	phone:	(617)981-0775 (work), (617)527-3908 (home)
NDMAKE by Don Kneller is wonderful and is seriously compatible with
UNIX make.  I have ported many makefiles (very complicated) over from
UNIX (I do cross-compilations there most of the time) to my PC and
use NDMAKE.  I have not had to change a single line of code in the
make file to be compatible.  

NDMAKE is shareware and is worth more than the $35 which I was asked to
pay for it.  It has many additional features which I wish were in
UNIX make.  The last time I had an address for Don it was:

	kneller@ucsfcgl

If you cannot reach him in this way, I will look through my archives
at home and dredge a USNAIL address for him.

	Dion Hollenbeck             (619) 455-5590 x2814
	Megatek Corporation, 9645 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA  92121

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