On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:11:00 -0400 Norman Ramsey wrote: > > the mam* commands that generate old make makefiles have (significant) > bitrot
> Regrettable. not really it means the problem it was designed to solve has been solved in a different way > > 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. for many small to medium projects a one day manual rewrite usually results in the best nmake solution one exception I know of is the uwin X11 build system dgk designed jmake (imake++) to run imake on imakefiles to generate nmake makefiles on the fly uwin is a good case study the one package we gave up on converting was perl ans even with perl we have a stub Nmakefile so nmake builds all of uwin _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
