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In article <STEINARB.92Oct4172851@hagtorn.idt.unit.no>, steinarb@idt.unit.no (Steinar Bang) writes:

|> One of the files in the docs/notes directory of mach.cs.cmu.edu
|> mentions that the Mach people at CMU are working on moving the
|> Makefiles over to a format usable by a freely available Make (The OSF
|> ODE Make based on the BSD-Reno Make from the).
|>	...
|> Do the changes necessary to the CMU Makefiles to make them work
|>     with the ODE Make (or the GNU Make for that matter), and nicely
|>     ask CMU to start using these Makefiles in their distribution.
|> 
|> Suggestion 2 is the most desirable solution. It is however a biiig
|> job. It is not "fun" enough that anyone ever is likely to sit down and
|> do it for free, which means that some company or organization will
|> have to pay someone to do the work.
|> 
|> The question: is who is going to do it? CMU don't have any incentives
|> for the time being. OSF? FSF? I don't know.
|> 
|> - Steinar


OSF RI has already done this work for the Mach 3.0 (NORMA) microkernel
and OSF/1 single server, we use ODE as our day to day build environment but
generally to build for i386 AT architectures (AT, COMPAQ SYSPRO, COROLLARY).
This work is available to OSF/1.0 licencees.


I can appreciate the amount of work required to convert all the platforms CMU
build to the ODE environment [Mary Thompson detailed some of the problems
she'd encountered in her Email to you of the 10/01].  Extensions to ODE are
needed for some platforms and cross compilation is not supported with the
version we use.  I can't realistically see CMU wanting to support two build
environments while they convert.


David.


David George
OSF RI
Grenoble, France