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diff --git a/dmake/readme/intro.txt b/dmake/readme/intro.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8e25f9523b5b --- /dev/null +++ b/dmake/readme/intro.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +DMAKE +----- + +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 |