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- From: wild@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Markus Wild)
- Subject: Re: make utilities
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.130357.11302@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1g7h6gINN9ok@crcnis1.unl.edu> <1992Dec12.205104.29005@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 13:03:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.205104.29005@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- >In <1g7h6gINN9ok@crcnis1.unl.edu> tbills@cse.unl.edu (Trent Bills) writes:
- >> cd src; make -D.....
- >>Anyway, the point is that this doesn't work with any of the make
- >>utilities that I have tried. Some software packages contain
- >>dozens of subdirectories, and running make in each one would be
- >>a real pain.
- >
- >Unfortunately this requires a working Bourne shell clone since
- >make simply calles the shell to execute such lines.
- >
- >The GNU make port from Markus Wild together with his port of the
- >PD ksh seem to solve most of these problems.
-
- Mostly correct, though I never ported GNU make ;-) I'm using dmake myself,
- and on Makefiles that dmake chokes on, BSD make.
-
- -Markus
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