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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Open Watcom Make versus GNU Make]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Édouard,</p><p>We do not plan on switching away from Open Watcom Make.&nbsp; The Open Watcom tool is far more tolerant of the Windows environment (it properly handles backslashes, for example), and our environment is tailored towards its syntax at this point.&nbsp; We do plan on elminating a reliance on any Make tools in version 3.0, though, when work begins on that next major version.&nbsp; Much of what is necessary to behave as a Make system is already present in Simply Fortran anyways.</p><p>GNU Make for Windows is readily available, however.&nbsp; There is no reason you wouldn&#039;t be able to download a MinGW version of GNU Make to use with Simply Fortran.&nbsp; With some changes to our Makefiles, it would work properly.&nbsp; Are you authoring Makefiles by hand to use from the command line with our compilers?&nbsp; I&#039;m just curious about your use case.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[jeff]]></name>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Open Watcom Make versus GNU Make]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Hi Jeff,</p><p>I&#039;m used to write my own Makefiles under linux using gmake (GNU Make).</p><p>I know that there is a different Make command under Simply Fortran (wmake, from Open Watcom), but IMHO<br />it is less reliable and has less power than gmake. More specifically, there is no wildcard feature with wmake<br />to automatically set a variable with all the files present in a specified folder :<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;OBJS = $(wildcard build/*.o)<br />and this is like a neckbottle for me.</p><p>Do you plan to switch to the GNU make version ? Or at least propose an option to use one of them ?</p><p>Regards,<br />Édouard</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2016-04-30T12:01:54Z</updated>
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