> > On Glenn Fowler's web page, I read with interest about the existence
 > > of mamake and the use of transducers to convert between nmake Makefiles
 > > and GNU Makefiles.  Are these tools still current?  Does a transducer
 > > exist for Andrew Hume's 'mk' tool?  If not, could anyone advise me
 > > how to write one?
 > 
 > makefile conversion (or analysis) via MAM first requires an instrumented
 > make [and nmake and a fork of gnu make are instrumented]

Understood

 > the mam* commands that generate old make makefiles have (significant) bitrot

Regrettable.

 > mk has not been instrumented to emit MAM ...
 > instrumenting is the hardest part

I'd be willing to tackle this problem, except that the bitrot in the
generator for vanilla makefiles means it's less than helpful.

 > so do what do you want to convert mk to/from?

I have a large collection of legacy mkfiles which I'd like to continue
to maintain.  I'd like to convert on demand from mk to bog-standard
make with no gnu extensions.  mamake seemed like reusable infrastructure :-)


Norman
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