Re: Make utility documentation

2009-11-28 Thread Matthew Szudzik
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:58:22AM +1300, Paul M wrote: It deals mainly with gnu make, but the principles are the same. No. The book Managing Projects With GNU Make http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596006101 by Robert Mecklenburg and published by O'Reilly in 2004 deals mainly with GNU make, and isn't

Re: Make utility documentation

2009-11-28 Thread Paul M
On 29/11/2009, at 4:24 PM, Matthew Szudzik wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:58:22AM +1300, Paul M wrote: It deals mainly with gnu make, but the principles are the same. No. The book Managing Projects With GNU Make http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596006101 by Robert Mecklenburg and published by

Re: Make utility documentation

2009-11-27 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 03:04:16PM -0800, David Hoskin wrote: Could you kindly point me to the documentation about OpenBSD make utility and makefile. A pretty good tutorial can be found here: /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/ Warning: a large part of this documentation is a bit misleading.

Make utility documentation

2009-11-26 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Dear All, Could you kindly point me to the documentation about OpenBSD make utility and makefile. I read man pages but I am thirst for more. I am interested in general use of make utility rather than the specific use for porting software to OpenBSD. What do people think of Managing projects with

Re: Make utility documentation

2009-11-26 Thread Paul M
I found it to be a great book when I wanted an in depth understanding. It deals mainly with gnu make, but the principles are the same. paulm On 27/11/2009, at 10:29 AM, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Dear All, Could you kindly point me to the documentation about OpenBSD make utility and

Re: Make utility documentation

2009-11-26 Thread David Hoskin
Could you kindly point me to the documentation about OpenBSD make utility and makefile. A pretty good tutorial can be found here: /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/ (I don't know where to find it on the internet, short of of untar-ing miscXX.tgz)