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diff --git a/devel/dmake/DESCR b/devel/dmake/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..aa8de8ea3b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/dmake/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +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 |