101e196c8SJohn Marino bmake 2*f445c897SJohn Marino ***** 301e196c8SJohn Marino 4*f445c897SJohn MarinoThis directory contains a port of the BSD make tool (from NetBSD). 5*f445c897SJohn MarinoSince 1993 I have run it on AIX, BSDi, Darwin, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, 6*f445c897SJohn MarinoLinux, Minix, OSF, Solaris, SunOS and even UTS. 7*f445c897SJohn MarinoOthers have run it on many more systems. 801e196c8SJohn Marino 9*f445c897SJohn MarinoCurrently each release is tested on NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris and Linux. 1001e196c8SJohn Marino 11*f445c897SJohn MarinoSince 2003 bmake switched to a date based version (first was 20030714) 1201e196c8SJohn Marinowhich generally represents the date it was last merged with NetBSD's 1301e196c8SJohn Marinomake. Since then, NetBSD's make is imported within a week of any 1401e196c8SJohn Marinointeresting changes, so that bmake tracks it very closely. 1501e196c8SJohn Marino 16*f445c897SJohn MarinoBuilding 17*f445c897SJohn Marino======== 1801e196c8SJohn Marino 19*f445c897SJohn MarinoThe preferred way to bootstrap bmake is:: 2001e196c8SJohn Marino 2101e196c8SJohn Marino ./bmake/boot-strap 2201e196c8SJohn Marino 2301e196c8SJohn Marinothere are a number of args - most of which get passed to configure, 2401e196c8SJohn Marinoeg. 25*f445c897SJohn Marino:: 2601e196c8SJohn Marino 2701e196c8SJohn Marino ./bmake/boot-strap --prefix=/opt 2801e196c8SJohn Marino 2901e196c8SJohn Marinosee the boot-strap script for details. 3001e196c8SJohn Marino 31*f445c897SJohn MarinoFor folk that hate to read anything, since 20121212 you can also use 32*f445c897SJohn Marinothe GNU standard process of:: 33*f445c897SJohn Marino 34*f445c897SJohn Marino ./configure; make; make install 35*f445c897SJohn Marino 3601e196c8SJohn MarinoTo make much use of bmake you will need the bsd.*.mk macros or my 37*f445c897SJohn Marinoportable *.mk macros which are included with bmake since 20121212 38*f445c897SJohn Marinoand separately available from 3901e196c8SJohn Marinohttp://www.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/mk.tar.gz 4001e196c8SJohn Marinowhich will be links to the latest versions. 4101e196c8SJohn Marino 42*f445c897SJohn MarinoPorting 43*f445c897SJohn Marino======= 4401e196c8SJohn Marino 45*f445c897SJohn MarinoIf you encounter a system that bmake does not build or work on *out of 46*f445c897SJohn Marinothe box*, I welcome patches. 47*f445c897SJohn MarinoIf you can provide access to a suitable machine - even better. 4801e196c8SJohn Marino 49*f445c897SJohn MarinoMore info can be found at http://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.htm 5001e196c8SJohn Marino 51*f445c897SJohn Marino--sjg <sjg@crufty.net> 52*f445c897SJohn Marino 53