On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Juergen Boemmels wrote:
> the make shipped with Borland C++ builder doesn't like the makefiles
> in the current way. I had to tweak the buildfiles a little in order to
> get it Configure and compile. (It still does not link but thats
> another story). I removed the appearences of && in the Makefiles with
> ${make_and} which is defined to '&&' on all platforms but bcc, and
> simplified the cd dir && make && cd .. case by using a
> perl-replacement for the -C commandlineoption of make on windows
> platforms.
make -C is non-portable even among Unix systems. I think it's a
GNU-specific extension. It's not in Solaris make nor in BSD make,
as far as I can tell.
In short, if you have a portable perl-replacement for it, perhaps you
should just use your replacement everywhere.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
