Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 17:57:45 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: rdc AT freenet DOT vancouver DOT bc DOT ca
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, Giva AT bbb DOT no
Subject: Bug in DJGPP make

   On 21 Apr 1995, Gisle Vanem wrote:
   >  Please ignore my ignorance. But following this thread and not hearing
   >  any mention of 4DOS, makes my belly twist... 8^)

    I've been waiting for _someone else_ to mention 4DOS !

   I think it solves many of the sh needs without going too far astray.
   I didn't want to polute the mail-list with the obvious.

I am a big fan of 4DOS.  However, it is nowhere near sufficient to
handle recursive makes (GNU textutil, fileutil, elm, etc, etc) without
massive transformations to the makefiles, and it does have severe
command line-length limitations by Unix makefile standards (Ghostcript
3.32-beta, for example, in its command line form, would have a
250-word, 2400-byte link command---I guess that's too big for most
unix shells too, but you see the point).

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