Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 08:41:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: sprice@hiwaay.net, ponds!FreeBSD.org!freebsd-smp@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU, ponds!FreeBSD.org!hackers@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: NetBSD ==> FreeBSD make(1) Message-ID: <199609281241.IAA02863@lakes.water.net>
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> > Hi all, > > I just spent the better part of a week merging in some pretty > interesting stuff from NetBSD's make. Anybody that would like > to help me flesh it out before I commit it can drop me a line and > I will send it to you. I would've attached the patch, but it is > about 4000 lines long and I didn't want to inundate those that > don't want it. For those who do, I can send you a tarball or > better yet if you have an account on freefall I can put a tarball > in my home directory and you can retrieve it from there. > > BTW, I am about half way through a 'make world' now and it is > chugging right along. :) After this it's off to ports-land to > randomly compile some stuff and see what happens. > > Steve > Can you describe just what these "interesting" things are. I've seriously modifed make(1) to "automagically" handle RCS repositories, version selection rules, etc... (essentially the basis of a rather nice Configuration Management system.) So, I'd be interested in whatever changes you made... - Dave R. -
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