4 The original sources of dmake were available on http://dmake.wticorp.com.
5 This site has not been reachable for some time and the source is hosted
6 in the OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/ cvs now. You can view
7 the source at: http://tools.openoffice.org/source/browse/tools/dmake.
9 dmake is different from other versions of Make in that it supports significant
10 enhancements. A short summary of the more important features follows:
12 . support for portable makefiles
13 . portable accross many platforms
14 . significantly enhanced macro facilities
15 . sophisticated inference algorithm supporting transitive closure
16 over the inference graph
17 . support for traversing the file sytem both during making of targets
19 . %-meta rules for specifying rules to be used for inferring
22 . local rule macro variables
23 . proper support for libraries
24 . parallel making of targets on architectures that support it
28 . swapping itself to DISK under MSDOS
29 . supports MKS extended argument passing convention
33 Current release notes can be found in the file:
37 Release notes for older dmake versions (4.1 and before) can be found in