Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> wrote:

> we seem to have gotten ratholed into which-make-style-is-better wars.

> When it comes to integration into the solaris build process, there are
> essentially only two credible options:
>
>  1) construct a new set of solaris-style makefiles and discard the
> originals.
>  2) write a wrapper/bootstrap script which fires up the original build
> system based on tools found in the existing build environment.


There is a third alternative.  Develop a program to convert nmake
Makefiles into solaris-style makefiles (and perhaps the reverse).
This way updates would be easy to handle since changes in nmake
makefiles would generate changes in solaris makefiles.

I think that Glenn Fowler and J?rg Schilling could work
together to understand each others make version and come up with
nmake to make translation programs. 



David Korn
dgk at research.att.com

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