New well tested makepp snapshot released

[Daniel Pfeiffer]

Makepp is a drop-in replacement for GNU make which has a number of features
that allow for more reliable builds and simpler build files. It supports
almost all of the syntax that GNU make supports, and can be used with
makefiles produced by utilities such as automake. It is called makepp (or
make++) because originally it was designed for building C++ programs. Also its
relationship to make is supposed to be analogous to C++'s relationship to C:
it is almost 100% backward compatible but adds a number of new features. In
fact, it will work with input files designed for make, but there are much
better ways to do things.

Here's again a new well tested beta snapshot. Besides more speedup and bug
fixes (especially for repositories), this version has been ported to z/OS. The
previously missing call function has been provided. A file .makepprc with
options in it is searched for, so you can store them in the build tree they
pertain to.

There still are a few bug fixes on the way for even better GNU make
compatibility (comma in variable is not to be a parameter separator and
variables with whitespace in name). After that this should already be close to
what the next official version will look like.

Homepage: http://makepp.sourceforge.net/
Documentation: http://makepp.sourceforge.net/1.50/
Download: http://search.cpan.org/~pfeiffer/

coralament / best Grötens / liebe Grüße / best regards / elkorajn salutojn
Daniel Pfeiffer

[Kenny McCormack]

Re: New well tested makepp snapshot released

In article <g7n32b$nit$01$ 1@news.t-online.com>,
Daniel Pfeiffer <occitan@espera nto.orgwrote:

>Makepp is a drop-in replacement for GNU make which has a number of features
>that allow for more reliable builds and simpler build files. It supports
>almost all of the syntax that GNU make supports, and can be used with

This is off-topic in comp.lang.c

Yey! I'm first in!

Hooray for me!!!

[CBFalconer]

Re: New well tested makepp snapshot released

Daniel Pfeiffer wrote:

>
Makepp is a drop-in replacement for GNU make which has a number
of features that allow for more reliable builds and simpler build
files. It supports almost all of the syntax that GNU make
supports, and can be used with makefiles produced by utilities
such as automake. It is called makepp (or make++) because
originally it was designed for building C++ programs. Also its
relationship to make is supposed to be analogous to C++'s
relationship to C: it is almost 100% backward compatible but adds
a number of new features. In fact, it will work with input files
designed for make, but there are much better ways to do things.

Is it also written in standard C, so as to be portable to systems
without C++ capabilities?

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Try the download section.

[Antoninus Twink]

Re: New well tested makepp snapshot released

On 10 Aug 2008 at 17:02, CBFalconer wrote:

Daniel Pfeiffer wrote:

>Makepp is a drop-in replacement for GNU make which has a number
>of features that allow for more reliable builds and simpler build
>files.

[snip]

>it is almost 100% backward compatible but adds a number of new
>features. In fact, it will work with input files designed for make,
>but there are much better ways to do things.

I think this would be a better sales pitch if you actually mentioned
what some of these fantastic "new features" are, instead of making
people visit your website to find out.

Is it also written in standard C, so as to be portable to systems
without C++ capabilities?

You truly are a dick. I mean, what systems would those be? Do you really
think the OP is expecting people doing embedded programming for espresso
machines to want an even-more-sophisticated-than-GNU make program.