D.4 Borland Make Compatibility

The following sections describe omake's compatibility with Borland Make.

• Automatic dependencies

omake knows how to read the dependency information stored in object files created from the Borland bcc compiler.

• Special targets

.SWAP :

.SWAP should only be found in makefiles produced by the Borland prj2mak program.

• Inline response files

omake accepts the inline response file syntax:

target :
command [ prolog ]&&X
build script
.
.
.
X [ epilog ]

where prolog is usually @ and X is a single character (Borland uses ! in its examples). The build scripts are placed in a response file and the command is invoked with the following command, where tempfile is a unique filename:

command prolog tempfile epilog

• Borland Make emulation

There is no specific Borland Make emulation mode.