dquah@athena.mit.edu (Danny Quah) (08/04/90)
[I haven't been able to keep up with the volume both here and in i386, so sorry if this has just been discussed...] With all the nifty make's floating by, have there been any that will do both an "include" and automatic construction of a response file to feed to the linker? I think early versions of ndmake had the second but not the first, while another old make had the first but not the second (you get the idea...). I've gotten accustomed to using "include" on SUNos and with gnu make on unix (tm) systems, but neither (of course) had difficulties with handling long command lines unlike on messy-dos. I can ftp from most anywhere but it'd be wasteful of resources until someone can tell me for sure that some PD make has those two key qualities. Thanks in advance. (If there's interest and I get lots of email, I'm happy to summarize.) -- --Danny (dquah@athena.mit.edu, dquah@dolphin.mit.edu) Dept. of Economics MIT, E52-274b, Cambridge MA 02139 Voice: (617) 253-0914 Fax: (617) 253-1330 #
roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (08/05/90)
dquah@athena.mit.edu (Danny Quah) writes: > With all the nifty make's floating by, have there been any > that will do both an "include" and automatic construction of a > response file to feed to the linker? Not sure what an "include" is, specifically... but dmake does the response files, and since it's distributed in source, you could have a go at writing "include" into it. dmake was posted to the net recently, in alt.sources (I think). -- Roy M. Silvernail | #include <stdio.h> | Does virtual now available at: | main(){ | reality need cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu | float x=1; | swap space? (cyberspace... be here!)| printf("Just my $%.2f.\n",x/50);} | -- me
zmls04@trc.amoco.com (Martin L. Smith) (08/06/90)
In article <364eN1w162w@cybrspc> cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: dquah@athena.mit.edu (Danny Quah) writes: > With all the nifty make's floating by, have there been any > that will do both an "include" and automatic construction of a > response file to feed to the linker? Not sure what an "include" is, specifically... but dmake does the response files, and since it's distributed in source, you could have a go at writing "include" into it. dmake was posted to the net recently, in alt.sources (I think). I've been using dmake on an AT clone for a couple of days. The source distribution supports both MSC and TC; the configuration is a little unusual but it comes up very easily. Dmake supports both included files and response file generation and much more. It is a <<very>> nice, extended make. The most recent distribution does not have a swapping-spawn, that is dmake remains resident while it runs commands, but I'm sure that will change soon. Dmake is distributed under the terms of the Gnu Public License. I think dmake will turn out to be a major utility, especially on MSDOS where the environment imposes such bizarre requirements on make programs. I'd like to thank Dennis Vadura, whom I believe is dmake's principal author. -- Martin L. Smith Amoco Research Center P.O. Box 3385 zmls04@trc.amoco.com Tulsa, OK 74102 [zmls04@sc.msc.umn.edu] 918-660-4065
NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg Wettstein) (08/14/90)
A version of GNU Make which has been ported to MS-DOS is currently being
shipped to comp.binaries.ibm.pc. Mr. Davidsen has a fairly formidable
queue so I would imagine that it should shw up sometime in early September.
In its MS-DOS incarnation GNU Make knows about the Microsoft linker and
how to generate automatic response files for command lines longer than
127 characters. All the features of GNU Make are preserved in the MS-DOS
environment so the inclusion of include files are supported. I also taught
GNU Make how to read the INCLUDE environment variable so it will search
whatever directories the user specifies to find its include file.
Ian Stewartson was also kind enough to snip out the swapping code which
his group developed and sent it to me. This has been included in the MS-DOS
port so that only about a 3-4K kernel is left when GNU Make runs the commands
associated with a target.
As always,
Dr. G.W. Wettstein
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