Re: smake to GNU make transition

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From: Frank Sweetser
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 00:00

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Toralf Lund <toralf@kscanners.com> writes:

> As we want our software developed on the SGI to be easier to build on
> other systems, notably Linux, we are planning to ditch smake and start
> using GNUmake instead (as I suppose smake exists for Irix only.) Can
> anyone give me general rules, hints or any kind of information at all
> about the process of rewriting Makefiles that use smake specific
> features like conditionals, special targets/sources and variable
> expansion modifiers?

you also probably want to check out the autoconf package - it can be a
godsend for setting up packages to compile on multiple platforms.  find it
on ftp.gnu.org

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From: Frank Sweetser <rasmusin@paramount.ind.wpi.edu>
Subject: Re: smake to GNU make transition
Date: 1999/04/07
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