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