• NLMAKE

    From Sean Dennis@1:11/200 to All on Wed Nov 13 10:23:48 2002
    Hello, All.

    It seems that the source code to NLMAKE has been secured and will be shortly be
    available at http://nlmake.sourceforge.net. I wish I could program in C right now as I'd love to port it and fix the bugs so a decent OS/2 version would come
    out. I'm R11C and it'd be nice if I could get something like that... but I just wanted to let you all know and get some traffic going in this echo. :)

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From David Noon@2:257/609.5 to Sean Dennis on Sun Nov 17 19:06:26 2002
    Hi Sean,

    Replying to a message of Sean Dennis to All:

    It seems that the source code to NLMAKE has been secured and will be shortly be available at http://nlmake.sourceforge.net. I wish I
    could program in C right now as I'd love to port it and fix the bugs
    so a decent OS/2 version would come out.

    If you're having problems with processing makefiles, you can also look at dmake
    and gmake.

    The latter is, of course, the GNU make, so it is generally considered as definitive as regards the syntax and semantics of make. Some swear by it, others swear at it.

    The former, dmake, is considered by many as an improved make. [The devotees of gmake consider these improvements to be negative, though.] I have found it to be an excellent maker.

    The OS/2 versions of both of these are on Hobbes, and Pete Norloff's BBS too.

    There are several other "independent" makers available for OS/2, but the few I have tried (bake, and some I can't recall) do not support the full syntax of GNU make. This means that writing your own makefiles is easier, but it also means that full-blown makefiles cannot be readily processed.

    Plus, we have the 16-bit and 32-bit versions of the IBM/Microsoft nmake. This is the utility supplied with the various compilers supplied by IBM (and Microsoft in the early days). Other compiler vendors of years gone by also supplied their own. The upshot is that most IDEs are, in fact, graphical front-ends to the compiler vendor's make utility.

    Regards

    Dave
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:11/200 to andrew clarke on Sun Nov 17 23:58:45 2002
    Hello, andrew.

    On 18 Nov 02 at 14:07, andrew clarke wrote to Sean Dennis:

    Sean, I'm looking at fixing some bugs in David Nugent's NLMAINT at the moment, but will be looking at NLMAKE shortly. Can you send me the
    list of known bugs for NLMAKE?

    I use MakeNL... I just started using it so the only bug I know is the line length problem.

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From andrew clarke@3:633/267 to Sean Dennis on Mon Nov 18 17:25:32 2002
    Sun 2002-11-17 23:58, Sean Dennis (1:11/200) wrote to andrew clarke:

    Sean, I'm looking at fixing some bugs in David Nugent's NLMAINT at
    the moment, but will be looking at NLMAKE shortly. Can you send me
    the list of known bugs for NLMAKE?

    I use MakeNL... I just started using it so the only bug I know is the
    line length problem.

    MAKENL bug reports are no good to me, because the source code is unavailable.

    Why don't you use NLMAINT?

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  • From andrew clarke@3:633/267 to Sean Dennis on Mon Nov 18 14:07:26 2002
    Wed 2002-11-13 10:23, Sean Dennis (1:11/200) wrote to All:

    It seems that the source code to NLMAKE has been secured and will be shortly be available at http://nlmake.sourceforge.net. I wish I could program in C right now as I'd love to port it and fix the bugs so a
    decent OS/2 version would come out.

    Sean, I'm looking at fixing some bugs in David Nugent's NLMAINT at the moment, but will be looking at NLMAKE shortly. Can you send me the list of known bugs for NLMAKE?

    -- mail@ozzmosis.com

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  • From andrew clarke@3:633/267 to David Noon on Mon Nov 18 14:08:40 2002
    Sun 2002-11-17 19:06, David Noon (2:257/609.5) wrote to Sean Dennis:

    It seems that the source code to NLMAKE has been secured and will be
    shortly be available at http://nlmake.sourceforge.net. I wish I
    could program in C right now as I'd love to port it and fix the bugs
    so a decent OS/2 version would come out.

    If you're having problems with processing makefiles, you can also look
    at dmake and gmake.

    Actually, David, NLMAKE is a FidoNet nodelist maker, not a Makefile processor... ;-)

    DMAKE is quite good though.

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:11/200 to andrew clarke on Mon Nov 18 10:40:44 2002
    Hello, andrew.

    On 18 Nov 02 at 17:25, andrew clarke wrote to Sean Dennis:

    Why don't you use NLMAINT?

    Because it's what I was given when I became RC. :)

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Sean Dennis on Mon Nov 18 15:20:32 2002
    Sean, I'm looking at fixing some bugs in David Nugent's
    NLMAINT at the moment, but will be looking at NLMAKE
    shortly. Can you send me the list of known bugs for
    NLMAKE?

    I use MakeNL... I just started using it so the only bug
    I know is the line length problem.

    there is also a y2k problem unless you are running 2.51 or higher...

    )\/(ark


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  • From David Noon@2:257/609.5 to andrew clarke on Mon Nov 18 18:46:04 2002
    Hi andrew,

    Replying to a message of andrew clarke to David Noon:

    If you're having problems with processing makefiles, you can also look
    at dmake and gmake.

    Actually, David, NLMAKE is a FidoNet nodelist maker, not a Makefile processor... ;-)

    Good-oh. That's probably why I'm not familiar with it: I only use a point system.

    DMAKE is quite good though.

    Indeed.

    Regards

    Dave
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:11/200 to mark lewis on Mon Nov 18 19:44:12 2002
    Hello, mark.

    On 18 Nov 02 at 15:20, mark lewis wrote to Sean Dennis:

    I use MakeNL... I just started using it so the only bug
    I know is the line length problem.

    there is also a y2k problem unless you are running 2.51 or higher...

    Here's what I've got:

    MakeNL -- Version 2.51 -- Jun 14 1992 16:55:25
    Copyright 1987-1991 by Ben Baker -- All rights reserved

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Sean Dennis on Mon Nov 18 23:57:22 2002
    I use MakeNL... I just started using it so the only bug
    I know is the line length problem.

    there is also a y2k problem unless you are running 2.51
    or higher...

    Here's what I've got:

    MakeNL -- Version 2.51 -- Jun 14 1992 16:55:25
    Copyright 1987-1991 by Ben Baker -- All rights reserved

    that looks right... and the filesize is 48231??

    )\/(ark


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  • From Sean Dennis@1:11/200 to mark lewis on Tue Nov 19 08:27:57 2002
    Hello, mark.

    On 18 Nov 02 at 23:57, mark lewis wrote to Sean Dennis:

    that looks right... and the filesize is 48231??

    Yessir. :)

    Later,
    Sean

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