| This is the VMS port of GNU Make. |
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| It is based on the VMS port of GNU Make 3.60 by Mike Moretti. |
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| This port was done by Klaus Kรคmpf <kkaempf@progis.de> of |
| proGIS Software, Aachen, Germany. |
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| To build Make, simply type @makefile. This should compile all the |
| necessary files and link Make. There is also a file called |
| makefile.vms. If you already have GNU Make built you can just use |
| Make with this makefile to rebuild. |
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| Here are some notes about GNU Make for VMS: |
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| The variable $^ separates files with commas instead of spaces (It's the |
| natural thing to do for VMS). |
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| See defaults.c for VMS default suffixes and my definitions for default |
| rules and variables. |
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| The shell function is not implemented yet. |
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| Load average routines haven't been implemented for VMS yet. |
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| The default include directory for including other makefiles is |
| SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSLIB] (I don't remember why I didn't just use |
| SYS$LIBRARY: instead; maybe it wouldn't work that way). |
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| The default makefiles make looks for are: makefile.vms, gnumakefile, makefile., |
| and gnumakefile. . |
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| The stat() function and handling of time stamps in VMS is broken, so I |
| replaced it with a hack in vmsfunctions.c. I will provide a full rewrite |
| somewhere in the future. Be warned, the time resolution inside make is |
| less than what vms provides. This might be a problem on the faster Alphas. |
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| You can use a : in a filename only if you preceed it with a backslash ('\'). |
| E.g.- hobbes\:[bogas.files] |
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| Make ignores success, informational, or warning errors (-S-, -I-, or -W-). |
| But it will stop on -E- and -F- errors. (unless you do something to override |
| this in your makefile, or whatever). |
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| Remote stuff isn't implemented yet. |
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| Multiple line DCL commands, such as "if" statements, must be put inside |
| command files. You can run a command file by using \@. |
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| Change history: |
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| 3.76.x |
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| Added VMS help version (make.hlp) of the Unix man page. To integrate |
| that with an existing Help library use a command like the following |
| $lib/ins/help sys$help:helplib.hlb make.hlp |
| 3.74.3 |
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| Lots of default settings are adapted for VMS. See default.c. |
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| Long command lines are now converted to command files. |
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| Comma (',') as a separator is now allowed. See makefile.vms for an example. |
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