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From: Orbital <vazndain AT zveris>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: GNU Make, DJP, JPTUI etc.
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:09:36 +0300
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  I, like many others, was not satisfied with GNU Make's [mis]feature where
a Tab character was required in a rule definition. So I got the sources, 
found a line in read.c, saying:

  if (lb.buffer[0] == '\t')

and changed it to:

  if (lb.buffer[0] == '\t' || lb.buffer[0] == ' ')

So far, the newly built make works OK on my trivial makefiles. What I want to
know is are there cases where my hack could skrew up Make's parsing engine?
I think DJ can answer that. Thanks.

Also, I downloaded DJP 1.03 yesterday and found a little bug in it. There's
a line in djp.c, saying:

  if (!wasexe)
    strcat(wrkmem, ".exe");

the mistake here is that a file may not be an .exe image but still have an
extension, e.g. a.out . I changed the above line to:

  if (!wasexe) {
    if ((p1 = strrchr(wrkmem, '.')) != NULL)
      *p1 = '\0';
    strcat(wrkmem, ".exe");

I also changed error messages "can not rename exe file" to "can not rename
backup file" and "can not rename ~ file" to "can not rename temporary file"
as I find them more understandable. I also have some suggestions for the
upcoming version of DJP: why not make it compatible with stubify in terms 
of command line options? I mean -v for copyright and statistics and -g to
generate a link. DJPSTUB.EXE would not be needed any more then and we could
put djp in the specs file, like %{pack:djp} %{!pack:stubify} ... . Also I'd
suggest making backups optional (eg -b switch) and stripping the debug info
optional (eg -s switch). All this is not a lot of work, so if you agree
with my suggestions and are lazy to implement them, I'll be glad to do that
for you. Just let me know when you're done with DJP 1.04.
  
Yesterday I also downloaded JPTUI 3.3 from Jean-Pierre's web page. 
Awesome. I was just surprised that the zip contained no sources. I saw 
jptui32s.zip in v2tk, but it's 3.3 I need... How do I get the sources? I also
have one suggestion for JPTUI. So far, JPTUI always switches to mode 03h,
i.e. 80x25. Why not make it run in *any* text-video-mode? My Trident 9440
card supports lots of them, 132x30 is my favorite. Robert's port of Turbo
Vision already does this, so why JPTUI should't? Again, I'm ready to 
contribute, just need sources.

BTW, being a big M$ and Win hater, I am going to switch to Win95... AArgh..
don't flame me. I want to know, what are those problems with LFN and which
apps have them. Emacs 19.31 and GNU Make are the only ones I know. What 
exactly is wrong with Make? I have the sources so maybe I'll be able 
to build myself a correct version. Eli? Can you shine some light? Thanks.

Martynas

vazndain AT pit DOT ktu DOT lt