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

Jerome Warnier jwarnier at beeznest.net
Mon Aug 16 09:13:28 PDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 14:48 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com> wrote:
> 
> > "Garrett D'Amore"<garrett at damore.org  <http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/developer>>  wrote:
> >
> > >/  So one of the tasks that someone who doesn't want to work on kernel
> > />/  code, but is interested in a significant bit of userland work would be
> > />/  to add the parallel/distributed features of dmake into the vanilla make
> > />/  sources we have.
> > />/
> > />/  We need it to be compatible with Sun dmake, so that we don't have to
> > />/  change a zillion lines of Makefile, nor ask other projects to do so.
> >
> > Does this imply a move away form the Studio tools?
> >
> > dmake may not be open source, but it is a tool we all have and one that wont be going away.
> 
> Do you have a PPC or MIPS dmake binary?
Are you telling us there are projects to support the PPC and/or MIPS platform?
;-)

> Jörg




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