Question...

[Wagner, Phillip W.]

Hi,

I am new to make and was wondering about a couple things about the behavior
of the gnu make tool.  Who would be the best person to ask these questions?
I will need to ask via email as I am isolated from the web (for a number of
activities) via our firewall...

1. While using the -win32 shell how does one correctly expand an environment
variable for usage on the command line.  The %DOS_VARIABLE% doesn't always
expand when executing a command.  It appears to still be passing commands
through the BASH shell though the --win32 option is selected.

2. I am dealing with a compiler that will create a target file ( .i or .obj
) with a zero size when it errors.  I need to allow make to execute with
errors suppressed as "acceptable" warnings occur that stop make.  Is there a
way that make would be able to check for files with 0 size to force them to
be rebuilt?  Otherwise with the correct file date time stamp make will
consider the files complete and not try a rebuild.

3. Are there any examples of using the macro definitions to create a file.
What is needed is the ability to create a file on the fly that the bind tool
will use as an input for the creation of an OMF (executable) file.  (I am
using an old intel 386 compiler with DOS command line limitations...)

Thanks for any information or direction on who to ask for information!!!

Thanks,

Phillip 

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