Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/23/16:52:12
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (Broeker AT axp02 DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) wrote:
: The same problem arises once you need advanced textutilities like
: sed/awk or at least tr for your makefile. You *can* have GNU Make do
: some of their work, but at some point, you'll sure need The Real Thing
: (tm:-), which might not be available on all desirable platforms. There
: could also be bugs in their implementation on some of the weirder OS's
: out there, of which you won't ever know until someone gets hit by them
: using your 'innocent' little makefile.
Even when dealing with unix only, there are so many possibilities why a make
process may fail, if you consider the GNU configure scripts or the scripts
from e.g. Perl or c-news. Since MS-DOS is plagued with the absence of a
suitably featured command processor (and none of the necessary tools), I
think supplying an alternate Makefile for DOS/DJGPP is the easiest solution
here.
bye, Alexander
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