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From: pml@casetek.casetek.UUCP (Pat Lashley)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Unix Make on VMS?
Message-ID: <125@casetek.casetek.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 13:31:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: casetek.125
Posted: Tue Aug 11 13:31:32 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Aug-87 04:43:55 EDT
References: <15442@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <1805@vice.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: pml@casetek.UUCP (Pat Lashley)
Organization: CASE Technology, Mountain View
Lines: 33
Keywords: Make, VMS
Summary: MMS is not un*x-like make
Xref: mnetor comp.sources.wanted:1902 comp.os.vms:2158

In article <1805@vice.TEK.COM> glennl@vice.TEK.COM (Glenn C. Le Vernois) writes:
>In article <15442@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, rmohiudd@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Razi Mohiuddin) writes:
>> 
>> Does anybody have a facility similar to the Unix Make command on DEC VMS?
>> Source code in C, DCL or other languages would be appreciated.
>> 
>
>DEC sells a layers produce called MMS (Module Management System)
>which claims to be UNIX Makefile compatible.  We've been running it
>for a couple of years.  I'm not sure how much it's used.
>

I also am interested in a un*x-like make for VMS.  We have MMS, and it is
deficient in several areas.  One of the bigest defeciencies is the inabliity
to create a makefile which contains just rules. (i.e. You want to make
.FRB files from .SRC files by running a locally written FROBNOSTICATE
program.  You do NOT want to list each potential .FRB file in the Makefile.)
Another problem is the inability to say `make *.OBJ' to ensure the currency
of all object files in a given directory.  (Yes, I know that you could
make a dummy dependancy which would reference them all; but it would have
to be updated every time you add or remove a module from that directory.)
There are also some inconvieniences in dependancy handling, the spawned
sub-processes are given only half of the original resource limits; and
the whole thing is as slow as growth.  DEC should be ashamed to charge
for this turkey.

What I want is a reasonably efficient make facility which provides all of
the capabilities, and ease of use, of the BSD make which we received (FREE)
with our Sun workstations.
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