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

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