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Howdy friends,

I am wondering if I can increase my developement time and reduce the
wear and tear on the disk by using a better makefile construct.

Background Info:
  MSDOS 5
  Microsoft `C' 7.0 compiler
  Microsoft nmake (make utility)

Given, say, 30 dependent files, my makefile compiles the source files as

   cl -c a.c
   cl -c b.c
   cl -c c.c

   and so on for all those source files which are out of date.

Obviously, for each such source file there is an overhead of
loading and releasing the compiler. A better construct would be

  cl -c a.c b.c c.c ...

wherein the compiler is loaded and released just once.

Note that the command string needs to be constructed dynamically
depending on the out of date source files.

Question:
 Is there a way to achieve this using "any" make utility ?
 ( nmake, borland make , or any public domain or shareware make)

Thank you for your help. If need be, I'll summerize the responses
on the net.

Pradeep
tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu