Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 21:24:48 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Changing system() [was: bug in djgpp's make]
To: turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>   portability?  You could simplify this by adding an option telling make
>   to run command.com; perhaps this option could also, if at all feasible,
>   generate a list of external programs called (so the author could see
>   if there were any nonstandard utils listed).
>
...
>
>		 "make --list-actions | sort | uniq"
>
>Oh, are those non-standard utilities?  Sorry....  Which is
You seem to have stumbled across my point here...if make could be asked
to produce a list of programs it invokes, the makefile author could
double-check that list to make sure it didn't involve something people
weren't likely to have.

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