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 (Randy Kaelber) writes:
> Kent Covert ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>
>> There is also a facility on VMS that is similar to MAKE.  It's called MMS.
>> I've used it, but I don't know much about setting up MMS configuration
>> files.  Issue the HELP MMS command for more information.
>
> My understanding is that GNU Make was also ported to VMS as of the 3.75
> release of Make. It would be really handy to have that ability on VMS to
> make totally portable application distributions.
>
> I'd be more than willing to get it and build it for VMS if we could put it
> someplace where everyone could use it.
>
> GNU Make is a wonderful, wonderful program that beats the pants off of all
> the make utilities that come with Unix distributions for making truly
> portable apps. MMS description files look a bit like Makefiles, but I
> doubt Digital is going to port it to Unix, WinNT/95, and OS/2 anytime
> soon. :)
 
We can look into it.  The problem I've seen with this is that lots of
Makefiles seem to have Unix command embedded in them.  These usually aren't
portable to VMS.  If you can write a Makefile that doesn't contain any of
these, it might work.
 
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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
                                     Miami University, Oxford, OH
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