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-DMAKE
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-
-The original sources of dmake were available on http://dmake.wticorp.com.
-This site has not been reachable for some time and the source is hosted
-in the OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/ cvs now. You can view
-the source at: http://tools.openoffice.org/source/browse/tools/dmake.
-
-dmake is different from other versions of Make in that it supports significant
-enhancements. A short summary of the more important features follows:
-
- . support for portable makefiles
- . portable accross many platforms
- . significantly enhanced macro facilities
- . sophisticated inference algorithm supporting transitive closure
- over the inference graph
- . support for traversing the file sytem both during making of targets
- and during inference
- . %-meta rules for specifying rules to be used for inferring
- prerequisites
- . conditional macros
- . local rule macro variables
- . proper support for libraries
- . parallel making of targets on architectures that support it
- . attributed targets
- . text diversions
- . group recipes
- . swapping itself to DISK under MSDOS
- . supports MKS extended argument passing convention
- . directory caching
- . highly configurable
-
-Current release notes can be found in the file:
-
- NEWS
-
-Release notes for older dmake versions (4.1 and before) can be found in
-the file:
-
- readme/release.txt