On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 12:17 PM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel
<freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> I am sending a GPLed version of the Unix make utility in the hopes
> that other programmers can make it great again! Please send back
> improvements.
>


Gregory shared the file with me, and I have mirrored it in the FreeDOS
Files Archive at Ibiblio:

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/make/make/


Here's a copy of the README file, for more information:

> README for make
>
> This is my attempt at writing a better make for FreeDOS than all the makes out
> there. This includes dmake (a toy make) and even GNU make if I can. After two
> weeks of writing, I came up with this. It may be buggy, missing a few parts,
> or not have proper documentation, but at least it runs and could convince
> others that it could be something good.
>
> Other PD versions of make use a singly linked list as the primary data
> structure. I wanted to get away from that, especially in places where I'd have
> to go over the whole list to find something. This version uses a map, with an
> AVL tree as the internal data structure. The program also uses dynamic arrays
> and dynamic strings to simplify the handling of macros.
>
> I also included what POSIX has to say about make in the file make.txt.
>
> Gregory Pietsch <gpiet...@comcast.net>, 2024-10-24


I'll also share a news item about it on the website.


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