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Public Domain Make - Author (I assume Neil Russell)
MS-DOS modifications: Cheyenne Wills.
Amiga modifications: Talin.
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This is an enhanced version of the 'make' utility I found on BIX.
Enhancements so far include:
- Now supports amiga enviroment variables.
- #include facility.
- improved documentation.
- added '-a' (make all) option.
- added '-e' (enviroment priority) option.
Other changes:
- extensive modifications to support timestamps in Amiga format.
- working on making the program 'resident', not done yet.
- changed default rules to be more suitable for Amiga.
- got rid of a lot of MS-DOS specific code that wasn't needed.
- got rid of a lot of code for other operating systems. Basically
only left in code for AmigaDOS and Unix.
- added lots and lots of comments.
On the whole, I've made the program somewhat less portable than before,
but since the origincal sources are available I don't see portability as a
major design objective.
Talin.
My real address is:
David Joiner
17428 Chatsworth St.
Granada Hills, CA 91334.
BIX: talin
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The following are the two readme files that were associated with
the two postings to net.sources (on usnet). The source code
is that from the second posting with additions for running under
ms-dos.
I would like to thank Neil Russell for writting and placing this
version of MAKE in the public domain. It is perhaps one of the
closest PD makes to the UNIX version.
Enjoy.
Cheyenne Wills
12 West Locust St.
Mechanicsburg Pa. 17055
P.S. Neil didn't copyright any of the code. Neither am I, but
I feel that he would want at least the following disclaimer (and
so do I)
Disclaimer:
No guarantees or warranties of any kind: This code is distributed
"AS IS" without any warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied,
including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability
and fitness for a particular purpose. You are soley responsible for the
selection of the program to achieve your intended results and for the
results actually obtained. Should the program prove defective, you (and
not the author) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing,
repair, or correction.
Neither the author nor anyone else who has been involved in the
creation, production or delivery of this program shall be liable for any
direct, indirect, consequential or incidental damages arising out of the
use or inability to use this program.
readme.1 ----------------------------------------------------------
Enough coaxing... Here it is. It will need work to work on most
other systems, but the work should be minor. I went though the
source just now, and here is a list of things which I noticed that
will need changing.
make.c:
* Fix dosh() for your system.
* Call to getstat() in modtime() is like a fstat() on unix,
so it needs fixing.
main.c:
* You can have fun in main(). That call to initalloc() is
really special to EON.
rules.c:
* Fix makerules() to suit you compilers for the auto suffix
stuff.
It supports most features of the UNIX make, the notable exceptions
being libraries, and some subtleties with quoting. I will support
problems with it to a degree. Good luck.
P.S. I never actually got around to writing a manual entry for
it, so the best course of action is to refer to the UNIX
manual entry, or the source.
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Neil Russell
ACSnet: caret@tictoc.oz
UUCP: ...!seismo!munnari!tictoc.oz!caret
ARPA: caret%tictoc.oz@seismo.arpa
readme.2 -------------------------------------------------------------
Following is a repost of the public domain 'make' that I posted
to net.sources a couple of months ago. I have fixed a few bugs, and
added some more features, and the resulting changes amounted to
about as much text as the whole program (hence the repost).
For those that missed the net.sources posting, this is a public domain
re-implementation of the UNIX make program. There is no manual included;
for documentation, refer to a UNIX manual, or the source.
Here is a list of the changes made:
i) If '-' (ignore) or '@' (silent) where used at the start
of a command, their effect was not turned off for the following
commands.
ii) A special target (.SUFFIXES, .PRECIOUS) or a rule (.c.o, .a.o),
if first in the file would be taken as the default target.
This resulted in error messages like "Don't know how to
make .c", because things like .SUFFIXES were being made.
This was further complicated by ---
iii) Special target lines with no dependents (ie. .SUFFIXES:\n)
were not clearing out the existing dependents like
they should.
iv) Default rules could not be redefined because of the error
checking for commands being defined twice. Now you are
allowed to define a target beinging with '.', having
no dependents with commands.
v) The -q option didn't do the time comparison correctly,
or clear the variable used to keep track of this. Thus
it didn't work very well.
vi) The syntax ${..} for macro's supported by UNIX make was
not supported.
vii) There wuz a couple of spelling errors.
viii) When make checked for implicit rules on targets without
a suffix, there were problems. (Note: The ~ feature of
UNIX make wasn't and still isn't supported)
ix) The -n option did not print @ lines like it was supposed to.
x) :: added. (See UNIX manual)
xi) $? added. (see UNIX manual)