Ken Sletten b894 c331 x2525 ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: I am posting this for my collegue Steve Dirickson.
: This info (if there is any) would be a big help.
: Please reply to me at my email address.  Thanks.
 
: Ken Sletten
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: If you are using a "make" utility to help you maintain your
: C-language products on your HP3000, I would very much
: like to know:
:  1) What product you use.
:  2) How well you like it.
:  3) What you dislike most about it.
:  4) What made you choose it over other candidates.
: Thanks.
 
: Steve Dirickson
 
(No plug alert, speaking as a user)
 
If you're on 5.0, you get a make utility for free.  It's in the MKS shell.
Despite it's not being perfect, it does work.  It's got a few problems if
you're trying to take random existing unix makefiles and use them on the
3k.  On the other hand, a little tweaking usually suffices to get it going
again.
 
The GNU make utility is available on JAZZ and will sometimes work when the
MKS make utility will not.  On the other hand, the error messages are a _lot_
less informative for the same errors.
 
I have gotten into the habit of trying the MKS make, then the GNU make, then
modifying or rewriting the makefile.  Many of the difficult makefiles are of
the auto-generated variety and rewriting them isn't that hard if you ignore
all the extraneous stuff and just want to make it compile things correctly.
 
Steve Elmer