GNU Make: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:10, 20 October 2016

Also known as gmake, GNU Make is a UNIX Make clone from the GNU project. It allows to define dependencies, handles macros very easily and is quite a flexible tool for many purposes. Was very popular as a free make like tool on OS/2 a few years back, but most users have gone to the better maintained and mostly compatible CMake.

Version

Last known version: GNU Make v4.2 (2016-05-22)

This version will probably compile on OS/2 if you take the OS/2 specific changes from the version below.

Last known OS/2 binary: GNU Make v3.8.1-r3 (2009-09-28)

There are several older GNU MAKE versions available for download at hobbes that might be more appropriate if you are either compileing an older project (EMX project for instance) or need a better grade of adaptation to using \ in paths instead of /.

Links

Licence

Open source software released under the GPL v2 and GPL v3, it is based on the public domain make utility.

Author and publisher

Neil Russell (Original author)
Free Software Foundation (Publisher)
Paul Smith (Current GNU Make maintainer)
Andreas Buening (Last known OS/2 port)

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 * Last known OS/2 binary: GNU Make v3.8.1-r3 (2009-09-28)
 : There are several older GNU MAKE versions available for  [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=make- download at hobbes] that might be more appropriate if you are either compileing an older project ([[EMX]] project for instance) or need a better grade of adaptation to using \ in paths instead of /.
-* It is also available on the YUM/RPM netlabs repository: "yum install kbuild-make"
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