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Re: smake to GNU make transition

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From: Toralf Lund
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 00:00
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"Paul D. Smith" wrote:
> 
> %% Toralf Lund <toralf@kscanners.com> writes:
> 
>   tl> As we want our software developed on the SGI to be easier to build on
>   tl> other systems, notably Linux, we are planning to ditch smake and start
>   tl> using GNUmake instead (as I suppose smake exists for Irix only.) Can
>   tl> anyone give me general rules, hints or any kind of information at all
>   tl> about the process of rewriting Makefiles that use smake specific
>   tl> features like conditionals, special targets/sources and variable
>   tl> expansion modifiers?
> 
> Go get the GNU make manual.  It's available (of course) in Texinfo and
> info format in the distribution, and it's available for purchase in
> hardcopy from the FSF or computer bookstores (this sends the FSF $'s,
> moreso if you order it directly--yay!), and it's available online from
> the FSF's web site in various formats (HTML, DVI, PostScript, text):
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/doc/doc.html
> 
> There are two chapters there of particular interest as you start out:
> one listing features found in one or more other implementations of make
> which don't exist in GNU make (often with suggestions for translation)
> and another listing features found in GNU make that may or may not exist
> in other versions of make.
These chapters don't really exist, do they? There is some information in
the one about "Features of GNU make", but it's not too helpful.

-- 
- T. Lund
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From: Toralf Lund <toralf@kscanners.com>
Subject: Re: smake to GNU make transition
Date: 1999/04/14
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