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From: alexlehm AT rbg DOT informatik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
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Subject: Re: [Q:] Recursive make ??
Date: 23 Apr 1996 12:37:37 GMT
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (Broeker AT axp02 DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) wrote:

: The same problem arises once you need advanced textutilities like
: sed/awk or at least tr for your makefile.  You *can* have GNU Make do
: some of their work, but at some point, you'll sure need The Real Thing
: (tm:-), which might not be available on all desirable platforms.  There
: could also be bugs in their implementation on some of the weirder OS's
: out there, of which you won't ever know until someone gets hit by them
: using your 'innocent' little makefile. 

Even when dealing with unix only, there are so many possibilities why a make
process may fail, if you consider the GNU configure scripts or the scripts
from e.g. Perl or c-news. Since MS-DOS is plagued with the absence of a
suitably featured command processor (and none of the necessary tools), I
think supplying an alternate Makefile for DOS/DJGPP is the easiest solution
here.


bye, Alexander

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