dcall@amadeus.wr.tek.com (Dale Call) (08/17/90)
Has anyone figured out a way to get Sun's make to understand RCS? We are
currently using a custom in-house version of make but would like to get
access to the advanced features in Sun's make. GNU make would work except
it doesn't work with Saber C {Saber depends on a nasty "feature" of
standard make, that comment lines start with a '#' char in the first
column, action lines that start with a '#' not in the first character
(there is a leading tab) are output as error messages that Saber
interprets. GNU make does it right (treats any line with whitespace
followed by # as a comment), but for us it is wrong *sigh*}.
Does anyone know of another product that is compatible with standard make,
understands RCS, works with Saber C, and has include file support,
conditionals, etc?
Suggestions? I haven't had a chance to look and see if GNU make can be
modified (yet another flag) to act in a compatible fashion so Saber will
work with it ... If this is doable, suggestions as to what letter the
flag should be (-b for broken, perhaps :-)) are welcome.
Dale Callscott@uunet.uu.net (Scott Weitzenkamp) (09/21/90)
In article <1990Aug23.225824.10951@rice.edu>, dcall@amadeus.wr.tek.com (Dale Call) writes: > Has anyone figured out a way to get Sun's make to understand RCS? We are > currently using a custom in-house version of make but would like to get > access to the advanced features in Sun's make. GNU make would work except > it doesn't work with Saber C {Saber depends on a nasty "feature" of > standard make, that comment lines start with a '#' char in the first > column, action lines that start with a '#' not in the first character > (there is a leading tab) are output as error messages that Saber > interprets. GNU make does it right (treats any line with whitespace > followed by # as a comment), but for us it is wrong *sigh*}. > We use Saber C and GNU make here at Talarian. What we did was to use "!" as Saber's make symbol. The relevant entry from the makefile might look like (our makefiles are generated by imake): saber_ie: !load $(CFLAGS) $(SOURCES) $(LDFLAGS) $(LINK_LIBS) $(SYS_LIBS) osaber_ie: !load $(CFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LINK_LIBS) $(SY_LIBS) I then put the following in my $HOME/.saberinit (although I believe this could be put in a system-wide initialization file): setopt make_symbol ! Hope this helps. Scott Weitzenkamp Sr. Software Engineer Talarian Corporation uunet!talarian!scott