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In article <C2n37n.Ay4@galileo.polito.it> cat@galileo.polito.it (A.Lioy) writes:
>Hi,
>I am looking for a PD make program for MS-DOS to be used in conjuction with
>djgpp (that is, in a 32-bit environment).
>Has GNU make been ported to DOS? I have checked the djgpp distribution and
>it doesn't appear to be there.

There is no 32 bit version (though I did try :-), there is a realmode dos 
version though.  It can be found on simtel20 et al in pd1:<msdos.gnuish> as 
make358.zip.  See comp.archives.msdos[.d] for more info on simtel20.

This version of make provides a mechanism for passing long command lines to 
child processes using environment variables, providing that it knows that
the child process understands how to handle them (go32, and therefore all
djgpp programs, do understand this).

to enable this feature, set up an envrionment variable like:

set longargs=make:gcc:ar:etc.....

listing any other useful programs that handle the longargs, such as 
gawk (or any of the other files found in the gnuish directory) or any
of the djgpp compiled gnu file utilities (rm, mv, install, etc) available
on ftp.math.niu.edu   

I suggest getting rm and the like, since it really cuts down on the number
of bogus command line failures you get when you do a 'make clean'  :->

regards,
mrc
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