office-gobmx/dmake/readme/intro.txt
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DMAKE 4.1 [http://dmake.wticorp.com/]
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The dmake home page can be found at:
http://dmake.wticorp.com/
Visit there for the latest in dmake related information.
dmake is different from other versions of Make in that it supports significant
enhancements (See the WWW page). 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
Additional information pertaining to installation can be found in either the
gold/ - sub-folder for the Dmake Gold release
public/ - sub-folder for the Damke public release
Release notes for this release of dmake can be found in the file
release.txt