1			       bmake
2			       *****
3
4This directory contains a port of the BSD make tool (from NetBSD).
5Since 1993 I have run it on AIX, BSDi, Darwin, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX,
6Linux, Minix, OSF, Solaris, SunOS and even UTS.
7Others have run it on many more systems.
8
9Currently each release is tested on NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris and Linux.
10
11Since 2003 bmake switched to a date based version (first was 20030714)
12which generally represents the date it was last merged with NetBSD's
13make.  Since then, NetBSD's make is imported within a week of any
14interesting changes, so that bmake tracks it very closely.
15
16Building
17========
18
19The preferred way to bootstrap bmake is::
20
21	./bmake/boot-strap
22
23there are a number of args - most of which get passed to configure,
24eg.
25::
26
27	./bmake/boot-strap --prefix=/opt
28
29see the boot-strap script for details.
30
31For folk that hate to read anything, since 20121212 you can also use
32the GNU standard process of::
33
34	./configure; make; make install
35
36To make much use of bmake you will need the bsd.*.mk macros or my
37portable *.mk macros which are included with bmake since 20121212
38and separately available from
39http://www.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/mk.tar.gz
40which will be links to the latest versions.
41
42Porting
43=======
44
45If you encounter a system that bmake does not build or work on *out of
46the box*, I welcome patches.
47If you can provide access to a suitable machine - even better.
48
49More info can be found at http://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.htm
50
51--sjg <sjg@crufty.net>
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