Date:	Wed, 6 Mar 1996 19:58:46 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	kaikow AT standards DOT com
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
In-Reply-To:	<DnuvAJ.CFv@mv.mv.com>
Message-Id:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.960306195710.26548G-100000@is>
Mime-Version:	1.0

On Wed, 6 Mar 1996 kaikow AT standards DOT com wrote:

> In the case of DJGPP, sed118 has a makefile that uses ln and tar and, 
> perhaps, others.
> 
> This is a chicken and egg problem.
> 
> Are there makefiles that do not rely on other programs? 

Some.  For those that do, you should either get a precompiled DJGPP 
binary (like in case of Sed), possibly from previous version, or 
substitute the missing programs with DOS commands (e.g. ln -> copy).

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