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.