Re: Borland's Make utility

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From: Steve Resnick
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 17:00

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In article <43468@netnews.upenn.edu> ferris@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Richard T. Ferris) writes:
>I have written a simple make file in Unix which doesn't seem to
>be writeable using the Borland DOS make utility.  Here is a simple
>modified file lister makefile which works under Unix:
>
>FILES = x y z 
>
>list: $(FILES)
>     ls $?
>     touch list
>
>The problem seems to be that there is no $? macro variable in the
>Borland make.  Is this right?  I know I could do this by having a
>seperate rule for each file but I am trying to be a bit more general.
>

The Turbo Make equivelant is $< . Turbo Make is not UNIX compatible. If
you want a UNIX compatible make, try NDMAKE. 

Cheers!
Steve


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