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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
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