From:	Paolo Baiardi <kurgan AT dist DOT dist DOT unige DOT it>
Subject:	ndmake and @
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Wed, 16 Feb 94 13:15:08 MET

John Nemeth wrote about make:
> On Feb 14,  9:13am, cremona AT maths DOT ex DOT ac DOT uk wrote:
> } Subject: simple make problem
> } I have also had problems in the past with long command lines.  The
> } solution is to put your list of .o files in another file called OBJS
> } (say) and replace them on the command line with @OBJS.   This is
> } documented somewhere.
>      I wonder if it would be possible to get GNU make to do this
> automatically.  NDmake 4.5 claims to be able to do it.  If GNU make
> can't do it automatically, or if it would take a lot of work to make
> it do so, maybe we should consider switching to NDmake.

I'm currently using NDmake, and it's possible to use a file as argument list,
but the file must be built before, and anyway the command invoked inside the
makefile must support the '@' response file, which is a DOS standard.
It seems to me that using this facility depends on the command invoked, not on
'make' itself, unless you are speaking about an automatic procedure which writes
a list of objects inside a temporary file and passes it to the related command,
e.g.:
	gcc $(myobjs)  --> gcc @something 
I have used GNU make and NDmake, and I consider the latter more 'unix-like', on
simple makefiles ( IMHO! ).
Regards,
		Paolo
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