R. Palkovic, SunPro: The Sun Programming Environment , M. Hall (ed.), A Sun Technical Report, Sun Microsystems, Inc., 67-86 (1987). -  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....compiler interface changes. make can enhance the development cycle by providing the thread to close these tool based seams. To do this with minimal user overhead, however, requires some basic changes to the make command. Such changes have been going on for years, but in a somewhat haphazard way [CF, EP, Hume, Palk, SM, SV1]. The following interrelated goals give direction to these changes. make must: easily scale from one to many users . do accurate change propagation . have sensible information distribution . run with reasonable speed . provide portable configuration management These goals are discussed in ....

....develop the shipped product, the target makefile language can even be a monolithic shell script that simply does a one time product build and installation. 8. Experience The ideas and features proposed here have been incorporated to a limited extent in the publicly available make implementations [Fowl, Hume, Palk, SM], and to a greater extent in commands based on different models [Clem, Wate] The Bell Laboratories nmake command (internal version) provided the basis for the arguments in this paper, and so supports them all. Although nmake is not backwards compatible with make, it is used in hundreds of ....

R. Palkovic, SunPro: The Sun Programming Environment , M. Hall (ed.), A Sun Technical Report, Sun Microsystems, Inc., 67-86 (1987). -

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