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2004/10/07 21:57:37 vq 1.1.1.1.130.1: #i31647# Bump the dmake version number to 4.3 plus some small cleanups.
Note: The _head file was renamed to COPYING, COPYING is not a new file,
but was empty befor.
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DMAKE 4.3
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The original sources of dmake were available on http://dmake.wticorp.com.
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This site has not been reachable for some time and the source is hosted
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in the OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/ cvs now. You can view
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the source at: http://tools.openoffice.org/source/browse/tools/dmake.
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dmake is different from other versions of Make in that it supports significant
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enhancements. A short summary of the more important features follows:
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. support for portable makefiles
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. portable accross many platforms
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. significantly enhanced macro facilities
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. sophisticated inference algorithm supporting transitive closure
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over the inference graph
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. support for traversing the file sytem both during making of targets
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and during inference
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. %-meta rules for specifying rules to be used for inferring
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prerequisites
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. conditional macros
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. local rule macro variables
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. proper support for libraries
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. parallel making of targets on architectures that support it
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. attributed targets
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. text diversions
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. group recipes
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. swapping itself to DISK under MSDOS
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. supports MKS extended argument passing convention
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. directory caching
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. highly configurable
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Release notes of dmake can be found in the file
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readme/release.txt
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and are continued in the file
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NEWS
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