[illumos-Developer] interesting userland project -- non-trivial

Garrett D'Amore garrett at nexenta.com
Mon Aug 16 08:02:04 PDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 12:49 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 08/16/10 11:54 AM, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> > > Guys, the OpenOffice.org team in Debian is using an Open Source dmake,
> > > which is said to be a modified version of the original public domain
> > > one. And it successfully builds OOo, and this is quite a huge and
> > > complicated piece of code, don't you think?
> > >
> > >    
> >
> > This looks like it:
> >
> > http://tools.openoffice.org/dmake/index.html
> 
> But this does not even support pattern macro expansions. There is no support
> for Sun style Conditional Macro Definitions, so there is a lot more to do than 
> we need to add to smake.

Right.  This dmake isn't the dmake you were looking for. :-)  Its
totally different, and not helpful to us.

	- Garrett
> 
> Jörg
> 





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