Borland's Make utility

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2 total messages Started by Richard T. Ferris Sat, 18 May 1991 01:10

#1200

Author: Richard T. Ferris
Date: Sat, 18 May 1991 01:10

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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.

Thanks for the help.
--RF
Richard Ferris
ferris@grad1.cis.upenn.edu

Re: Borland's Make utility

#1205

Author: 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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