X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <3C9F7540.A8B0707E@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: include depend References: <3c9f454d$0$4035$9b622d9e AT news DOT freenet DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 36 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:24:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.90.172.140 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1017084267 12.90.172.140 (Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:24:27 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:24:27 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote: > deckerben wrote: > > > I have source code that include the line "include depend" in > > the makefile, but the file "depend" does not exist, nor do any > > obvious candidates for renaming. Is there a utility that > > creates this file? > > Probably --- but not for DJGPP, as it is. > > It would probably help if you could give some more details. > Like the name of the package, and what compiler it's supposed to > be used with, originally. > > > Is the application source code / makefile possibly broken? > > Not necessarily. But probably it's not meant for DJGPP. > Makefiles, if not very carefully written, are about the most > unportable thing you can find in a typical Unix source code. > > Some people have installed GNU make on their Unix boxes, even > they they don't have any other GNU software, simply for that > reason: using GNU make on all platforms is about the only way > to gain compatible access to a reasonable set of features > across many different platforms. Doesn't gcc have an option to generate dependancies, something like -M? and a similar environment variable? -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT XXXXworldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. (Remove "XXXX" from reply address. yahoo works unmodified) mailto:uce AT ftc DOT gov (for spambots to harvest)