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From: scco@ur-tut (Sean Colbath)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Unix MAKEFILE equivalent on VMS
Message-ID: <1588@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 18:26:25 GMT
References: <9234@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: scco@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Sean Colbath)
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Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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Keywords: VMS, Makefile

In article <9234@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> cpadm@uranus.cis.ohio-state.edu (Chandresh Padmanabhan) writes:
>       I've been fooling around with the idea of a MAKEFILE eqvt on a VMS4.7
>system, without much luck. 
>
>       I'm pretty sure some VMS guru has come up with an equivalent; I'd 
>appreciate any info on how to do this, or a .COM for it. Thanks in advance !

I'm really interested in finding a *good* version of Make for VMS -- I know
that there are several versions in existance.  I currently have a version
written by a person called Todd Aven, of the "Software Sweatshop".  It's not
too bad, but it takes quite a while to parse the makefile before it gets
going, and hence is pretty slow.  I'd really like to find another that was
better written and faster, preferably in the public domain.

I'm also in the market for a public domain version of RCS, or some other
source code management system.  A commercially available product would be
all right, if it wasn't *too* expensive.  I work for a small software
company during the summer, and currently the code management system is
pretty bad.  I would really like to get them using something like a
combination of RCS and Make, but I don't know what's out there.

Along these lines, I'd be interested in hearing how other people manage
source code among multi-user projects.  Our products consist of a relatively
large set of FORTRAN programs, each operating independantly, but which may
be under development separately by any one person.  Each of these programs
may use some lower level code (drivers, user interface routines) which may
be under development by another programmer.  Right now, things are pretty
hectic -- different versions occasionally get intermixed, and word of mouth
is used when different versions are created.  I'd really like to automate
this if possible.  Any helpful suggestions?

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