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Article #424Re: smake to GNU make transition
From: Toralf Lund
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 100159,c67933e3fe96256c X-Google-Attributes: gid100159,public X-Google-Thread: 109f73,c67933e3fe96256c X-Google-Attributes: gid109f73,public X-Google-Thread: 1103af,c67933e3fe96256c X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public From: Toralf Lund <toralf@kscanners.com> Subject: Re: smake to GNU make transition Date: 1999/04/14 Message-ID: <37145F7C.72D2427E@kscanners.com> X-Deja-AN: 466229558 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <370B79C9.87BBD1B9@kscanners.com> <p5aewkv1ou.fsf@baynetworks.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@online.no X-Trace: news1.online.no 924082047 193.214.130.3 (Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:27:27 MET DST) Organization: Kongsberg Scanners AS MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:27:27 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.utils.help