1 bmake 2 ***** 3 4This directory contains a port of the BSD make tool (from NetBSD). 5Since 1993 I have run it on AIX, BSDi, Darwin, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, 6Linux, Minix, OSF, Solaris, SunOS and even UTS. 7Others have run it on many more systems. 8 9Currently each release is tested on NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris and Linux. 10 11Since 2003 bmake switched to a date based version (first was 20030714) 12which generally represents the date it was last merged with NetBSD's 13make. Since then, NetBSD's make is imported within a week of any 14interesting changes, so that bmake tracks it very closely. 15 16Building 17======== 18 19The preferred way to bootstrap bmake is:: 20 21 ./bmake/boot-strap 22 23there are a number of args - most of which get passed to configure, 24eg. 25:: 26 27 ./bmake/boot-strap --prefix=/opt 28 29see the boot-strap script for details. 30 31For folk that hate to read anything, since 20121212 you can also use 32the GNU standard process of:: 33 34 ./configure; make; make install 35 36To make much use of bmake you will need the bsd.*.mk macros or my 37portable *.mk macros which are included with bmake since 20121212 38and separately available from 39http://www.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/mk.tar.gz 40which will be links to the latest versions. 41 42Porting 43======= 44 45If you encounter a system that bmake does not build or work on *out of 46the box*, I welcome patches. 47If you can provide access to a suitable machine - even better. 48 49More info can be found at http://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.htm 50 51--sjg <sjg@crufty.net> 52 53