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  2. From: fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
  4. Subject: Re: dmake, gmake, which?
  5. Message-ID: <921111360@fcshome.UUCP>
  6. Date: 12 Nov 92 20:38:15 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov10.222935.21256@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
  8. Organization: What?!? Absolutely none!
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  12. BUCHANAN TIMOTHY E (buchanan@rintintin.Colorado.EDU) wrote:
  13. : What advantages do dmake and gmake offer over the stock make which comes
  14. : with Coho? Of these two, which do people prefer?
  15.  
  16. The big advantage is that THEY WORK!
  17.  
  18. Not that Coherent's make doesn't, but it's just weird enough that
  19. it chokes on a considerable number of "ordinary"  Unix makefiles.
  20.  
  21. When you say "gmake" I assume you mean GNU make. I've been using 3.62 here
  22. since porting it a couple of months ago with very few problems--a LOT
  23. fewer than with Coherent's make.
  24.  
  25. : 
  26. : Timothy. 
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