1 bmake 2 3This directory contains a port of the BSD make tool (from NetBSD) 4I have run it on SunOS,Solaris,HP-UX,AIX,IRIX,FreeBSD and Linux. 5 6Version 3 was re-worked from scratch to better facilitate 7importing newer make(1) versions from NetBSD. The original code base 8was NetBSD-1.0, so version 3 was built by doing a fresh import of the 9NetBSD-1.0 usr.bin/make, adding the autoconf and other portability 10patches to sync it with bmake v2, and then NetBSD's make 11of Feb 20, 2000 was imported and conflicts dealt with. 12NetBSD's make was again imported on June 6 and December 15, 2000. 13 14In 2003 bmake switched to a date based version (first was 20030714) 15which generally represents the date it was last merged with NetBSD's 16make. Since then, NetBSD's make is imported within a week of any 17interesting changes, so that bmake tracks it very closely. 18 19Building: 20 21The prefered way to bootstrap bmake is: 22 23./bmake/boot-strap 24 25there are a number of args - most of which get passed to configure, 26eg. 27 28./bmake/boot-strap --prefix=/opt 29 30see the boot-strap script for details. 31 32To make much use of bmake you will need the bsd.*.mk macros or my 33portable *.mk macros. See 34http://www.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/mk.tar.gz 35which will be links to the latest versions. 36 37On a non-BSD system, you would want to unpack mk[-YYYYmmdd].tar.gz in 38the same directory as bmake (so ./mk and ./bmake exist), and 39./bmake/boot-strap will do the rest. 40 41If you want to do it all by hand then read boot-strap first to get the 42idea. 43 44Even if you have an earlier version of bmake installed, use boot-strap 45to ensure that all goes well. 46 47--sjg 48