Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!graham From: graham@sce.UUCP (Doug Graham) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: split, head and tail for MSDOS Message-ID: <392@sce.UUCP> Date: 27 Jun 88 02:00:09 GMT Article-I.D.: sce.392 References: <5439@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <11314@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Lines: 21 Summary: Makefiles useless?? In article <11314@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, vojta@maalox.berkeley.edu (paul vojta) writes: > Personally, I find most makefiles useless, especially for short programs like > these. I'm curious. How do develop your programs? ie. What actions must you perform in the course of compiling and linking a program. Even for a program consisting of only a single source file, isn't it a pain to have to keep doing cc file.c link file.obj or whatever your equivalent is? Wouldn't just typing "make" be much easier on both the fingers, and the brain? A big advantage of make is that running it is all very mechanical. You don't have to remember filenames, or which compiler/assembler/linker to use or which compiler/assembler/linker options to use. And the people to whom you distribute your source then don't have to figure out the same things. Try it, you'll like it. Doug.