Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 00:33:08 -0800
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth AT cue DOT bc DOT ca>
To: cremona AT maths DOT ex DOT ac DOT uk, ghgreene AT nyx10 DOT cs DOT du DOT edu
Subject: Re: simple make problem
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

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.

}-- End of excerpt from cremona AT maths DOT ex DOT ac DOT uk