E.7.4 Program names

The following variables are program names, used in makele targets.

AS
The assembler. Default set to as.
COPY
a le copy program. Default set to cp -fp.
COPYTREE
a directory tree copy program. Default set to cp -frp.
CMP
a program to compare les. Default set to cmp.
DEL
a le removal program. Default set to rm -f.
DELTREE
a directory removal program. Default set to rm -rf.
DATE
a program to display the date.
DIFF
a program to produce di les.
ECHO
an echo program.
FPC
the Free Pascal compiler executable. Default set to ppc386.exe
INSTALL
a program to install les. Default set to install -m 644 on linux.
INSTALLEXE
a program to install executable les. Default set to install -m 755 on linux.
LD
The linker. Default set to ld.
LDCONFIG
(linux only) the program used to update the loader cache.
MKDIR
a program to create directories if they don't exist yet. Default set to install -m 755 -d
MOVE
a le move program. Default set to mv -f
PP
the Free Pascal compiler executable. Default set to ppc386.exe
PPAS
the name of the shell script created by the compiler if the -s option is specied. This command will be executed after compilation, if the -s option was detected among the options.
PPUMOVE
the program to move units into one big unit library.
PWD
the pwd program.
SED
a stream-line editor program. Default set to sed.
UPX
an executable packer to compress your executables into self-extracting compressed executables.
ZIPPROG
a zip program to compress les. zip targets are made with this program