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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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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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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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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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?

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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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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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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...

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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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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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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??

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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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