I came across this thread in the list archives and so apologize for the
lack of thread id headers.
AT&T maintains a branch of nmake that split from Lucent in '95.
There is a short overview at
http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/nmake/
Two parts of the thread caught my eye: state and depend
> av> The main thing I noticed is the built-in dependency scanner for
> av> source code. That would be a welcome addition to GNU make. OPUS
> av> had it, and it will be missed.
>
>You can get automated dependency scanning with GNU make, it just
doesn't
>come built-in. But it's not hard to achi
%% "Andy Voelkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
av> The main thing I noticed is the built-in dependency scanner for
av> source code. That would be a welcome addition to GNU make. OPUS
av> had it, and it will be missed.
You can get automated dependency scanning with GNU make, it just doesn't
c
%% Noel Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ny> "Paul D. Smith" wrote:
>> accurate: for example GNU make has had support for distributed builds
>> for a long time (at least on UNIX platforms), but it requires linking in
>> a 3rd party library (free, but not provided with GNU make).
ny> I d
>%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> jg> I have been reading about Lucent nmake
> jg> (http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/). It looks interesting,
> jg> they use a different rule format, and include a preprocessor.
> jg> There is a comparison to GNU make
> jg> (http://www.bell-
"Paul D. Smith" wrote:
> accurate: for example GNU make has had support for distributed builds
> for a long time (at least on UNIX platforms), but it requires linking in
> a 3rd party library (free, but not provided with GNU make).
I didn't know about this. Can you provide a URL?
Thanks,
Noel
%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jg> I have been reading about Lucent nmake
jg> (http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/). It looks interesting,
jg> they use a different rule format, and include a preprocessor.
jg> There is a comparison to GNU make
jg> (http://www.bell-labs.com
Hello,
I have been reading about Lucent nmake
(http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/). It looks interesting, they
use a different rule format, and include a preprocessor. There is a
comparison to GNU make
(http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/faq/gmake.html). I was
wondering if GNU mak
