On 29/11/2009, at 4:24 PM, Matthew Szudzik wrote:
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:58:22AM +1300, Paul M wrote:
It deals mainly with gnu make, but the principles are the same.
No. The book Managing Projects With GNU Make
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596006101
by Robert Mecklenburg and published by O'Reilly in 2004 deals mainly
with GNU make, and isn't very useful for OpenBSD users.
But the book Managing Projects With Make
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0937175900
by Andrew Oram and Steve Talbott, and last published by O'Reilly in
1993, deals with System V Release 4 make. The authors of that book
state that they "have tried to be careful to include caveats for
features that might not have made it on to some systems--particularly
the Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD)". They also outline
differences with GNU make (and other versions) in the appendices.
Thanks for clearing that up. It's many years since I read it, my memory
is obviously failing me in my dotage.
Managing Projects With Make was one of the earliest Unix books
published
by O'Reilly (maybe the first O'Reilly Unix book?), and it's probably
still the best introduction to generic make. It was even referenced on
the man page for make in HP-UX.
http://docs.hp.com/en/B3921-90010/make.1.html
I can attest to that. I was using BSD make at the time, but still found
it extremely usefull.
paulm
