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- Readme For The Make Utility
-
- Copyright (c) 1991 by Ben Eng
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
-
-
- HOW TO CONTACT ME
-
- Ben Eng
- 150 Beverley St. Apt #1L
- Toronto, Ontario
- M5T 1Y6
- CANADA
-
- telephone: (416)-979-8761
-
- e-mail: uunet!mnetor!becker!jetpen!ben
- BIX: jetpen
-
-
- MANIFEST
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- README - This file
- COPYING - The GNU General Public License
- bmake - The binary executable for the Amiga
- less - utility for reading text files under Amiga OS 2.0
-
- Source Code to the Make utility
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- Makefile
- builtin.c
- cond.c
- cond.h
- depend.c
- depend.h
- dumprules.c
- expand.c
- fncall.c
- input.c
- lists.c
- log.c
- macro.c
- main.c
- make.c
- make.h
- param.c
- parsing.c
- pattern.c
- read.c
- recipe.c
- snode.c
- touch.c
- version.c
-
- Some files necessary to make ben.lib
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- ben/basename.c
- ben/makefile
- ben/scdir.c
- ben/system.c
-
- include/scdir.h -- header file for the scdir routines
-
- docs/mdoc.tex - AmigaTeX documentation for Make
- docs/manpage.sty - by Rong Chen (rchen@cs.uiuc.edu)
-
-
- ABOUT THE PROGRAM
-
- This program requires Amiga OS 2.0 to run with maximum capability. Under
- Amiga OS 1.3, there is no wildcard support. Run the program with the
- argument `?' to see its usage, or `-h' to get more descriptive help on
- acceptable command line arguments.
-
- Because the program was compiled with DICE 2.06.37, the heap memory
- routines directly perform an AllocMem() from the system memory pool. The
- Make program performs many small allocations and deallocations, so it is
- possible for memory to become fragmented. Hopefully, sophisticated heap
- memory routines will appear in the standard library to reduce memory
- fragmentation. I haven't noticed any problems with fragmentation though.
-
- The environment variable ENV:system can be set to `yes' if you wish the
- command execution to use the Amiga OS 2.0 System() call. If ENV:system is
- set to `no', the Amiga OS Execute() call is used instead. The latter is
- desirable if you are still running with a shell that does not support the
- 2.0 conventions (WShell 1.2 falls under this category).
-
- Command line arguments to Make may not be grouped together; `-a -n' is
- completely different from `-an' (which doesn't exist).
-
- The present version of the Make program is incomplete and possibly
- bug-ridden. The documentation and functionality are incomplete, and still
- require much work to be done.
-
- As far as the author is concerned, because this software and documentation
- are distributed free of charge, he is not obligated to provide any support
- or updates. However, the complete source code is provided, along with
- enough information to construct an executable from it. The author would be
- very appreciative of any comments, bug reports and bug fixes that might be
- provided via paper mail and electronic mail (the addresses are provided
- above).
-
- If there is something broken, first try to find an updated version of this
- program. If the bug still exists in the most recent version of the
- program, please report it so that it can be fixed. If you have fixed the
- bug yourself, please provide me with the fixes so that they can be
- incorporated into the next update.
-
- If you actually use this program, I would like to know about it. If I find
- that nobody uses it then I will not distribute future updates to it. I
- write programs that are useful to me, and I tend to distribute them if they
- are useful to others. I will only know that my programs are useful to
- others if they let me know that they use them. Besides, I enjoy reading
- well-written mail.
-
- Feel free to send me things of little or great value, if it suits your
- fancy. Although this software is free (with respect to freedom) and no
- fees are charged for its private use, I am not at all opposed to receiving
- tokens of material wealth.
-
- -Ben
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