bmake
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This directory contains a port of the BSD make tool (from NetBSD). Since 1993 I have run it on AIX, BSDi, Darwin, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Minix, OSF, Solaris, SunOS and even UTS. Others have run it on many more systems.

Currently each release is tested on NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris and Linux.

Since 2003 bmake switched to a date based version (first was 20030714) which generally represents the date it was last merged with NetBSD's make. Since then, NetBSD's make is imported within a week of any interesting changes, so that bmake tracks it very closely.

Building

The preferred way to bootstrap bmake is::

./bmake/boot-strap

there are a number of args - most of which get passed to configure, eg. ::

./bmake/boot-strap --prefix=/opt

see the boot-strap script for details.

For folk that hate to read anything, since 20121212 you can also use the GNU standard process of::

./configure; make; make install

To make much use of bmake you will need the bsd.*.mk macros or my portable *.mk macros which are included with bmake since 20121212 and separately available from http://www.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/mk.tar.gz which will be links to the latest versions.

Porting

If you encounter a system that bmake does not build or work on out of the box, I welcome patches. If you can provide access to a suitable machine - even better.

More info can be found at http://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.htm

--sjg [email protected]