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

[Jerome Warnier]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 08:02 -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 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.

Who could imagine Sun uses and maintains two different make, both named
dmake, one for Solaris and one for OOo.
I would have been glad to help here, though.

> 	- Garrett
> > 
> > Jörg

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