Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/10/12:09:50
In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 970409131228 DOT 3639E-100000 AT is>, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>On 8 Apr 1997, Gary Shingles wrote:
>> Another possible cause is the Makefile being in Unix text file format in the
>> .tar.gz archive. That can cause considerable problems with MS-DOS make
>> utilities.
>
>This is incorrect, at least as far as DJGPP's Make is considered: it
>can handle Unix- and DOS-style text files alike. In fact, any program
>written in C will treat both styles the same, unless it insists on
>reading Makefiles in binary mode.
It must have been the version of GNU Make for DOS I used to use. (3.something).
(Maybe I compiled it from my Linux sources?)
I use rhide now, it's very good. (aside: How's the Linux version going?)
Thanks for your info Eli, you look like a very busy person. :-)
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Gary
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