benefiel@wyse.wyse.com (Daniel Benefiel xtmp user id dept234) (03/05/90)
I'm getting the error message "Unable to execute command: DEL XPATCH.EXE"
while running MAKE on the following (partial make file). I have no
problem executing the DEL command myself from DOS (the file exists & has
rw attributes). Any ideas on what MAKE's problem is?
XPATCH.COM: XPATCH.OBJ MEM_IO.OBJ DISP_SEG.OBJ VIDEO_IO.OBJ CURSOR.OBJ \
DISPATCH.OBJ KBD_IO.OBJ PHANTOM.OBJ EDITOR.OBJ
LINK /M XPATCH MEM_IO DISP_SEG VIDEO_IO CURSOR DISPATCH KBD_IO PHANTOM EDITOR;
EXE2BIN XPATCH XPATCH.COM
DEL XPATCH.EXE
XPATCH.OBJ: XPATCH.ASM
tasm XPATCH,XPATCH,XPATCH;
MEM_IO.OBJ: MEM_IO.ASM
tasm MEM_IO,MEM_IO,MEM_IO;
(More compilation rules deleted)
Thanks in advance!
danbobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) (03/05/90)
benefiel@wyse.wyse.com (Daniel Benefiel xtmp user id dept234) <2624@wyse.wyse.com> : -I'm getting the error message "Unable to execute command: DEL XPATCH.EXE" -while running MAKE on the following (partial make file). I have no I just tried this on a dummy file: DEL XPATCH.EXE got fatal error del XPATCH.EXE worked fine. I speculate that commands such as "EXE2BIN ..." succeed because they are invoking programs that exist in your path. "del" is a DOS internal command. Perhaps make tries to handle internal commands specially, but only recognizes lower case; and it wouldn't find any file named "del.exe" (or .bat or .com) in your path --- normally such a program could never be executed because DOS will do its internal command instead.
DOUG@YSUB.BITNET (Doug Sewell) (03/05/90)
In article <2624@wyse.wyse.com>, benefiel@wyse.wyse.com (Daniel Benefiel xtmp user id dept234) says: > >I'm getting the error message "Unable to execute command: DEL XPATCH.EXE" >while running MAKE on the following (partial make file). I have no >problem executing the DEL command myself from DOS (the file exists & has >rw attributes). Any ideas on what MAKE's problem is? > The book says 'del' should work. It will invoke 'command.com' to run the delete command, internally creating 'command /c del ......' As far as not accepting 'DEL', perhaps that's the unix roots of 'make' coming through. It doesn't make sense in a DOS world, though. TLINK (as opposed to LINK) with the '/t' option will create a .com file automatically, at least if you use TLINK that comes w/TC 2.0 and TASM 1.0 (p. 223 in the Turbo Assembler reference manual). Doug Sewell (DOUG@YSUB.BITNET/YSU.EDU), Tech Support, Computer Center, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555 >> Snow is a four-letter word.