From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 28 15:39:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA05830 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:39:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA05776 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:39:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA24341; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 18:20:01 -0400 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 18:20 EDT Received: from lakes.water.net (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.water.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA12247; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 16:51:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.water.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id QAA03444; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 16:50:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 16:50:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199609282050.QAA03444@lakes.water.net> To: sprice@hiwaay.net, ponds!freebsd.org!freebsd-smp, ponds!freebsd.org!hackers Subject: Re: NetBSD ==> FreeBSD make(1) Cc: ponds!thuvia.qstools.com!bill Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Here is a brief list of the changes to make(1). > > Add these directives: > > .ORDER ; control build order of targets > .PARALLEL ; not fully implemented > .PHONY ; always out of date target > .WAIT ; more parallel-related stuff > > Add these command line arguments: > > -B ; set backward compatibility mode > -m directory ; override the default system include path > > Also, tons of stuff to better support SunOS/SVSV-based machines, > and scads of job-control related fixes/enhancements. > > Steve > I'd be interested in your job-control related fixes - I've just started that task myself (porting our Make to HP/UX 9.05), so I'd rather not re-invent the wheel... :-) - Thanks - - Dave R. -