Hi all, At the moment I'm "making" a build environment using gnu make and I joined this (and the make-w32) list for some extra support and I'll try to answer some questions as well. I have always been interested in the different versions of make and I might even dive into the gnu code one day.
A couple of years ago I have made a build environment (that I was quite proud of) using Dennis Vadura's (WTI Corp.) dmake (now sort of maintained by OpenOffice at http://tools.openoffice.org/dmake/). I must say I really liked its features and its clear syntax. I was wondering why some (1997 old) features never ended up in gnu make (e.g. '.INCLUDE .NOINFER' to prevent remaking of makefiles, assignment operators like +:=, specify .PHONY in the actual rule itself, I believe VPATH was called .SOURCE, path separator handling, .EXIT target, etc.). Has anybody ever looked at dmake and the possibility to merge some features or even the two projects? I guess it has to do with backward compatibility, and personal taste, and time :-) I'll put some other questions and things I have in separate posts for easier discussion and archive searching. Regards, Joost Leeuwesteijn _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
