Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 19:58:46 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: kaikow AT standards DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
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On Wed, 6 Mar 1996 kaikow AT standards DOT com wrote:

> In the case of DJGPP, sed118 has a makefile that uses ln and tar and, 
> perhaps, others.
> 
> This is a chicken and egg problem.
> 
> Are there makefiles that do not rely on other programs? 

Some.  For those that do, you should either get a precompiled DJGPP 
binary (like in case of Sed), possibly from previous version, or 
substitute the missing programs with DOS commands (e.g. ln -> copy).