I've got a set of tools and management bits and pieces I've been using
quite successfully under NetBSD but I'm having trouble migrating these
to a Linux environment.
I had an abortive attempt at converting these to use GNU make but found
this to be too much pain ... unfortunately there seems to be at least
equal amount of pain trying to track down precompiled binary packages of
pmake on various Linux distributions[1] - I'm trying to get it working
for RedHat and SuSE at this point ...
Instead of looking for packaged versions, I thought I'd try copying out
the version that's bundled with pkgsrc however this seems to rely on an
nbcompat layer which would force me to compile up more of the pkgsrc
tool chain than I want in this instance ... unless I'm off-track here
tand his is the only way to do it using the pkgsrc bootstrap
Alternatively, are there reasonably current stand-alone versions of
pmake to be had that would compile under Linux that someone can point me
at[3]?
It's meant to be portable[4], according to the label on the tin ... :)
Regards,
Malcolm
[1] ubuntu seems to be the exception - I've found a mostly working version
of pmake in freebsd-buildtools as well as a pmake package which seem to
do the right thing, but without a binary package specific to the distro
I need it on, I'll need to compile and link it in-situ I think
[2] to add to the confusion, pmake.sourceforge.net seems to be a dead python
make project, which is annoying as it's referenced in vulnerability reports
for the real pmake (cf http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67495)
[3] I've got almost exactly the same question about mtree, if anyone
has hints on where to find current source for that which would work under
Linux too, that would be appreciated
[4] unless this means 'parallel', I never got a good answer to this
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Malcolm Herbert
m...@mjch.net
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