RE: Lucent nmake feature support

2004-02-03 Thread Glenn Fowler
I came across this thread in the list archives and so apologize for the lack of thread id headers. ATT maintains a branch of nmake that split from Lucent in '95. There is a short overview at http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/nmake/ Two parts of the thread caught my eye: state and

Lucent nmake feature support

2003-11-09 Thread J. Grant
Hello, I have been reading about Lucent nmake (http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/). It looks interesting, they use a different rule format, and include a preprocessor. There is a comparison to GNU make (http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/faq/gmake.html). I was wondering if GNU

Re: Lucent nmake feature support

2003-11-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jg I have been reading about Lucent nmake jg (http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/). It looks interesting, jg they use a different rule format, and include a preprocessor. jg There is a comparison to GNU make jg

Re: Lucent nmake feature support

2003-11-09 Thread Noel Yap
Paul D. Smith wrote: accurate: for example GNU make has had support for distributed builds for a long time (at least on UNIX platforms), but it requires linking in a 3rd party library (free, but not provided with GNU make). I didn't know about this. Can you provide a URL? Thanks, Noel

RE: Lucent nmake feature support

2003-11-09 Thread Andy Voelkel
%% J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jg I have been reading about Lucent nmake jg (http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/). It looks interesting, jg they use a different rule format, and include a preprocessor. jg There is a comparison to GNU make jg