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diff --git a/devel/bmake/files/README b/devel/bmake/files/README index d09e977e48b..a782f6dfc5b 100644 --- a/devel/bmake/files/README +++ b/devel/bmake/files/README @@ -1,47 +1,52 @@ bmake + ***** -This directory contains a port of the BSD make tool (from NetBSD) -I have run it on SunOS,Solaris,HP-UX,AIX,IRIX,FreeBSD and Linux. +This directory contains a port of the BSD make tool (from NetBSD). +Since 1993 I have run it on AIX, BSDi, Darwin, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, +Linux, Minix, OSF, Solaris, SunOS and even UTS. +Others have run it on many more systems. -Version 3 was re-worked from scratch to better facilitate -importing newer make(1) versions from NetBSD. The original code base -was NetBSD-1.0, so version 3 was built by doing a fresh import of the -NetBSD-1.0 usr.bin/make, adding the autoconf and other portability -patches to sync it with bmake v2, and then NetBSD's make -of Feb 20, 2000 was imported and conflicts dealt with. -NetBSD's make was again imported on June 6 and December 15, 2000. +Currently each release is tested on NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris and Linux. -In 2003 bmake switched to a date based version (first was 20030714) +Since 2003 bmake switched to a date based version (first was 20030714) which generally represents the date it was last merged with NetBSD's make. Since then, NetBSD's make is imported within a week of any interesting changes, so that bmake tracks it very closely. -Building: +Building +======== -The preferred way to bootstrap bmake is: +The preferred way to bootstrap bmake is:: -./bmake/boot-strap + ./bmake/boot-strap there are a number of args - most of which get passed to configure, eg. +:: -./bmake/boot-strap --prefix=/opt + ./bmake/boot-strap --prefix=/opt see the boot-strap script for details. +For folk that hate to read anything, since 20121212 you can also use +the GNU standard process of:: + + ./configure; make; make install + To make much use of bmake you will need the bsd.*.mk macros or my -portable *.mk macros. See +portable *.mk macros which are included with bmake since 20121212 +and separately available from http://www.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/mk.tar.gz which will be links to the latest versions. -On a non-BSD system, you would want to unpack mk[-YYYYmmdd].tar.gz in -the same directory as bmake (so ./mk and ./bmake exist), and -./bmake/boot-strap will do the rest. +Porting +======= + +If you encounter a system that bmake does not build or work on *out of +the box*, I welcome patches. +If you can provide access to a suitable machine - even better. -If you want to do it all by hand then read boot-strap first to get the -idea. +More info can be found at http://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.htm -Even if you have an earlier version of bmake installed, use boot-strap -to ensure that all goes well. +--sjg <sjg@crufty.net> ---sjg |