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- GNU Make v3.64 for the Amiga
- ============================
-
- Short: Amiga port of GNU Make 3.64
-
- 1. Contents of this archive:
-
- libs (dir)
- ixemul.library
- COPYING.LIB
- bin (dir)
- make
- build.sh
- config.h
- COPYING
- make.diff
- Makefile
- README
-
- 2. Installation
-
- Just copy bin/make to a place in your path (e.g. BIN:) and
- libs/ixemul.library to LIBS:. You will not be able to run make nor
- recompile without ixemul.library! The library was created by Markus Wild
- (<wild@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch>) and provides emulation of *NIX
- kernel/system functions (still credits where credits belong: Thank you
- Markus, thank you!).
-
- NOTE: GNU make and ixemul.library are FREE software. Please refer to
- libs/COPYING.LIB for copyright stuff concerning the library and COPYING
- for the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. The library source is available via
- anonymous ftp from amiga.physik.unizh.ch and mirrors.
-
- Currently, the vfork() system call from ixemul.library, as utilized by
- GNU make, requires OS2.x. I have not been able to test make under 1.x,
- it *might* work, but will certainly not if vfork() is invoked. Full
- functionality is available at least under 2.x. With 3.0, however, there
- should be no problems, but I couldn't test that, too.
-
- 3. Recompile
-
- Source and documentation of GNU make-3.64 are available via anonymous
- ftp from various sites, most probably from the site you got this archive
- from. Please check make.diff for modifications! Eg. you will probably
- want to adjust the stuff around INCLUDEDIR and LIBDIR in read.c and
- remake.c if your gcc: tree layout diverges from the standard one.
-
- There are several ways to recompile:
-
- - use 'build.sh' in the current dir to rebuild 'make' without a
- make-tool
- > sh build.sh
-
- - use 'bin/make' or your (up to now) favorite make-tool and the
- included 'Makefile' :); the Makefile might need editing for correct
- pathes and binaries on your machine
-
- - use the original 'configure' shell script:
- > sh configure
-
- This step requires the following binaries in your path, which are
- available from the gcc-release, SKsh, pdksh, self-compiling etc.:
- sh, rm, tr, chmod, sed, cat, egrep, grep, mv, gcc, gccv :).
-
- HINT: if you have an 'install'-programm in your path, please rename
- make-3.64/INSTALL to something (completely :)) different; if the
- current directory is in your path before the location the
- 'install'-programm resides, 'configure' inserts make-3.64/INSTALL as
- install-programm, because AmigaOS is not case-sensitive.
-
- If sh cannot find your binaries: 'set PATH <where the bins reside>'
- (you could also recompile pdksh with your preferred path builtin :)).
-
- IMPORTANT: the original 'configure'-script has to be edited to use
- 'gccv' instead of 'gcc'. Just search for the following lines and
- replace 'gcc' with 'gccv' where noted:
- ...
- echo checking for gcc
- saveifs="$IFS"; IFS="${IFS}:"
- for dir in $PATH; do
- test -z "$dir" && dir=.
- if test -f $dir/gcc; then # <-- replace here
- CC="gcc" # <-- replace here
- ...
- Otherwise you will NOT be able to run configure (I blushingly withdraw
- my bugreport concerning IXPIPE ...).
-
- The created 'config.h' will contain wrong '#define's' and needs
- editing by hand. I have no idea if this arises from the amiga-'sh' or
- is a deficiency of 'configure'. So check carefully or use the included
- config.h!
-
- 4. Documentation
-
- There are no docs included. Full documentation is available via
- anonymous ftp (make-doc-3.64.tar.z). Using 'make.texinfo' from the
- original 'make-3.64.tar.z'-archive and 'makeinfo' from AmigaLibDisk 787
- you can create a plain ASCII-file, a 'TeX'-ed documentation, the
- make.info-?-files for use with InfoView or even an AmigaGuide-style
- docfile.
-
- GNU make offers several features not provided by other make utilities:
- - recursive make (descending directory trees, make, ascend)
- - multiple concurrent make jobs (really works, but needs LOTS of ram!)
- - a lot of additional implicit rules
-
- Send bugs, comments, needles and pins, Them Bones, '040/33-boards to
- <st000002@hrz1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
-
- And, as always, have fun! (>;-))
- Lars Hecking
-