Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 09:04:43 -0500
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: jnemeth AT cue DOT bc DOT ca
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: simple make problem


>      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.

It can be done, but the gnu make port I did was a *minimal* port -
just enough changes to get it to work with djgpp.  Since it internally
knows how to pass long command lines to other djgpp programs (this is
built into spawn()) there were few changes required.

There is a dos port of make 3.70 that includes all the previously-used
command line extension methods, and I've contacted the author to join
forces in producing a single port that includes all the functionality.

DJ