darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) (12/16/89)
In article <1989Dec15.021527.18711@sjuphil.uucp> ryan@sjuphil.uucp (Patrick M. Ryan) writes: > > Is it just my imagination or is the version of Make which comes >with MSC 5.1 a pitiful imitation of the real Unix Make? You seem suprised that Microsoft would deliver software like that. Don't forget that this is the same company that gave you MS-DOS and now OS/2. I find Turbo C's make much better in this regard but I get funny problems with it from time to time. How about those PD makes? Can you point me to a decent one? -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | Thank goodness we don't get all D'Arcy Cain Consulting | the government we pay for. West Hill, Ontario, Canada | No disclaimers. I agree with me |
jpk@myrbost.myrias.com (Joe Keenan) (12/22/89)
In article <1989Dec16.113419.21632@druid.uucp> (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: >I find Turbo C's make much better in this regard but I get funny problems >with it from time to time. How about those PD makes? Can you point me to >a decent one? I've had great success with one called NDMake. Look for NDMAKE45.arc in your favorite BBS's programming utilities section.
Bob.Stout@p6.f506.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Bob Stout) (12/24/89)
In an article of <21 Dec 89 18:33:45 GMT>, (Joe Keenan) writes: >I've had great success with one called NDMake. Look for NDMAKE45.arc in >your favorite BBS's programming utilities section. The previously recommended Opus Make (commercial) is a much enhanced direct decendant of NDMAKE. Aside from additional bells and whistles, Opus offers much lower memory usage during execution than most other makes. It's the memory usage issue that's the real Achilles heel of some of the more capable bundled makes such as the new Microsoft NMAKE or Borland's MAKE. I often do fairly massive recompilation of libraries driving the various bundled MAKEs from simple batch files and the only one that's proven to be both capable and frugal with RAM has been Zortech's. Both NMAKE and Borland's MAKE tend to blow up partway through with various out of memory errors. NDMAKE is also OK, but it's hard to imagine large enough sources or cramped enough RAM to choke Opus Make. BTW, Lugaru also publishes a similarly frugal and generally excellent make that you should also check out.