On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:13:15 -0500, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote:

>Gil wrote, in part:
>> Consider abandoning JCL and using "make" with the 
>>flexibility to define suffix rules.
>
>how would that help? Isn't it still invoking the compiler underneath, with the 
>same (apparent) restriction?

The expectation is that Unix "make" will work the same across all platforms and 
that IBM XL C would support this feature in some way.  I'm guessing this is a 
feature of make instead of the compiler.

The drawback with MAKE over JCL is error message handling.

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