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This is the DMAKE Version 3.8 distribution. DMAKE is a Make like tool that
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has been written by me and has been used by individuals at the University of
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Waterloo. This release replaces the previous version 3.7 release which is no
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longer supported. Please read the file 'readme/release' which accompanies
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this distribution and describes details of this release (This note is found
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in readme/cover).
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dmake is available for anonymous ftp from watmsg.uwaterloo.ca address is
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129.97.141.9. It is in the pub/dmake directory, set your mode to binary,
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and copy either:
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dmake38.tar.Z - compressed tar archive
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dmake38.zoo - zoo archive
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dmake38-msdos-exe.zoo - MSDOS executable zoo archive
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dmake38.shar01 - xx part shar archive, get all parts
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...
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dmake38.sharxx
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dmake38.patchY - Patch Y for dmake 3.8
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Note that all archives are created on a UNIX system. This means that the
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distributions heading for DOS-land need to have the <lf> turned into a
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<cr><lf>. There exist a number of filters for doing this (sed comes to mind),
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and is easily run over each file using a UNIX shell script. Thus I don't
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provide two different versions of the archives.
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dmake is different from other versions of make in that it supports significant
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enhancements (See the man page). A short summary of the more important
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ones follows:
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. support for portable makefiles
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. runs on many platforms (DOS, generic unix [sysv and bsd4.3],
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apollo, OS/2, Atari, and many others)
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. significantly enhanced macro facilities
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. transitive closure on inference graph
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. sophisticated inference algorithm
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. support for traversing the file sytem both during making of targets
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and during inference
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. %-meta rules for specifying rules to be used for inferring
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prerequisites
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. highly configurable
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. support for libraries
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. parallel making of targets on architectures that support it
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. attributed targets
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. text diversions
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. group recipes
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. swapping itself to DISK under MSDOS
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. supports MKS extended argument passing convention
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All code found in this distribution is original and written by me except where
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noted in the source and the following:
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- dbug/dbug package from Fred Fish (dmake DEBUG=1, to make a debugging version
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of dmake)
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- malloc.c package in dbug/malloc from the NET, see the directory for
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attribution.
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-dennis
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