Kent Covert ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> We can look into it.  The problem I've seen with this is that lots of
> Makefiles seem to have Unix command embedded in them.  These usually aren't
> portable to VMS.  If you can write a Makefile that doesn't contain any of
> these, it might work.
 
Which is why you're supposed to define your commands in the Makefile like
this:
 
RM=/bin/rm
 
and then use:
 
        ${RM} foo
 
in the Makefile. Sadly, though, not everyone does this. I even know better
and sometimes slip up and hard-code a command.
 
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