From: Rossz =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=E1mos=2DWentworth?= <rossw AT jps DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Create response files
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:52:49 -0800
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Is there a way for MAKE.EXE to dump a line into a text file so that I
can use it as a response file.  For example, I have this rule (note,
this is not a DJGPP version of LD, if it were, I wouldn't have this
problem):

%.coff: $(KOBJECTS)
 $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $(KOBJECTS) $(LIBS) -o $*.coff

Which usually exceeds the 127 character limit of DOS.   I'd love to be
able to do this:

%.coff: $(KOBJECTS)
    dump respond $(LDFLAGS) $(KOBJECTS) $(LIBS) -o $*.coff
    $(LD) @response

Where 'dump' is the (nonexistent?) command to write to the specified
file ('response') the remainder of the line (after variable expansion).
Obviously, using 'ECHO blah >response' won't work, nor will any other
external command (that I can think of).

Thanks.

Rossz