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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>1996-03-20 14:57:41 +0000
committerRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>1996-03-20 14:57:41 +0000
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Tue Mar 19 20:21:34 1996 Roland McGrath <roland@charlie-brown.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Merged VMS port from Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@didymus.rmi.de>. * make.h (PARAMS): New macro. * config.h-vms: New file. * makefile.com: New file. * makefile.vms: New file. * readme.vms: New file. * vmsdir.h: New file. * vmsfunctions.c: New file. * vmsify.c: New file. * file.h: Renamed to filedef.h to avoid conflict with VMS system hdr. * ar.c: Added prototypes and changes for VMS. * commands.c: Likewise. * commands.h: Likewise. * default.c: Likewise. * dep.h: Likewise. * dir.c: Likewise. * expand.c: Likewise. * file.c: Likewise. * function.c: Likewise. * implicit.c: Likewise. * job.c: Likewise. * job.h: Likewise. * main.c: Likewise. * make.h: Likewise. * misc.c: Likewise. * read.c: Likewise. * remake.c: Likewise. * remote-stub.c: Likewise. * rule.c: Likewise. * rule.h: Likewise. * variable.c: Likewise. * variable.h: Likewise. * vpath.c: Likewise. * compatMakefile (srcs): Rename file.h to filedef.h.
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+This is the VMS port of GNU Make version 3.74.
+
+It is based on the VMS port of GNU Make 3.60 by Mike Moretti.
+
+This port was done by Klaus Kämpf (kkaempf@didymus.rmi.de)
+
+To build Make, simply type @makefile. This should compile all the
+necessary files and link Make.
+There is also a file called makefile.vms. If you already have GNU
+Make 3.74 built you can just use Make with this makefile to rebuild.
+
+Here are some notes about GNU Make for VMS:
+
+Libraries are not supported. They were in GNU Make 3.60 but somehow I didn't
+care porting the code. If there is enough interest, I'll do it at some
+later time.
+
+The variable $^ separates files with commas instead of spaces (It's the
+natural thing to do for VMS).
+
+See defaults.c for VMS default suffixes and my definitions for default
+rules and variables.
+
+The shell function is not implemented yet.
+
+Load average routines haven't been implemented for VMS yet.
+
+The default include directory for including other makefiles is
+SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSLIB] (I don't remember why I didn't just use
+SYS$LIBRARY: instead; maybe it wouldn't work that way).
+
+The default makefiles make looks for are: makefile.vms, gnumakefile, makefile.,
+and gnumakefile. .
+
+The stat() function and handling of time stamps in VMS is broken, so I
+replaced it with a hack in vmsfunctions.c. I will provide a full rewrite
+somewhere in the future. Be warned, the time resolution inside make is
+less than what vms provides. This might be a problem on the faster Alphas.
+
+You can use a : in a filename only if you preceed it with a backslash ('\').
+E.g.- hobbes\:[bogas.files]
+
+None of the stuff in vpath.c has been implemented yet.
+
+Make ignores success, informational, or warning errors (-S-, -I-, or -W-).
+But it will stop on -E- and -F- errors. (unless you do something to override
+this in your makefile, or whatever).
+
+Remote stuff isn't implemented yet.
+
+Multiple line DCL commands, such as "if" statements, must be put inside
+command files. You can run a command file by using \@.
+
+
+VMS changes made for 3.74.3
+
+Lots of default settings are adapted for VMS. See default.c.
+
+Long command lines are now converted to command files.
+
+Comma (',') as a separator is now allowed. See makefile.vms for an example.
+