Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:39:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Howard Kaikow <kaikow AT standards DOT com>
Message-Id: <199603062039.PAA16044@mv.mv.com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Subject: Re: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

The source would be needed to compile to use long file names.

> From eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il Wed Mar  6 13:00:24 1996

> 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).
>