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- This is the VMS port of GNU Make.
-
- It is based on the VMS port of GNU Make 3.60 by Mike Moretti.
-
- This port was done by Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf@progis.de> of
- proGIS Software, Aachen, Germany.
-
- To build Make, simply type @makefile. This should compile all the
- necessary files and link Make. There is also a file called
- makefile.vms. If you already have GNU Make built you can just use
- Make with this makefile to rebuild.
-
- Here are some notes about GNU Make for VMS:
-
- The variable $^ separates files with commas instead of spaces (It's the
- natural thing to do for VMS).
-
- See defaults.c for VMS default suffixes and my definitions for default
- rules and variables.
-
- The shell function is not implemented yet.
-
- Load average routines haven't been implemented for VMS yet.
-
- The default include directory for including other makefiles is
- SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSLIB] (I don't remember why I didn't just use
- SYS$LIBRARY: instead; maybe it wouldn't work that way).
-
- The default makefiles make looks for are: makefile.vms, gnumakefile, makefile.,
- and gnumakefile. .
-
- The stat() function and handling of time stamps in VMS is broken, so I
- replaced it with a hack in vmsfunctions.c. I will provide a full rewrite
- somewhere in the future. Be warned, the time resolution inside make is
- less than what vms provides. This might be a problem on the faster Alphas.
-
- You can use a : in a filename only if you preceed it with a backslash ('\').
- E.g.- hobbes\:[bogas.files]
-
- Make ignores success, informational, or warning errors (-S-, -I-, or -W-).
- But it will stop on -E- and -F- errors. (unless you do something to override
- this in your makefile, or whatever).
-
- Remote stuff isn't implemented yet.
-
- Multiple line DCL commands, such as "if" statements, must be put inside
- command files. You can run a command file by using \@.
-
-
- VMS changes made for 3.74.3
-
- Lots of default settings are adapted for VMS. See default.c.
-
- Long command lines are now converted to command files.
-
- Comma (',') as a separator is now allowed. See makefile.vms for an example.
-
-