Re: Are there other tools?

[Mike Gibson]

Wouldn't it require Plan9?

It looks nice, but doesn't seem to add a whole lot beyond what make already 
has.  The only thing I noticed that I liked was regular expression pattern 
rules.  However I wasn't able to find any details.  I'd like to able to 
something like this without have to resort to using eval to create huge 
makefiles.

Q%(1)_DB%(2).txt : %(1).q %(2).db
        buildme %(1).q %(2).db > $@

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 07:46 am, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 07:19:33AM -0700, Mike Gibson wrote:
> ...
> # The successor to make is going to have to look a lot like make to be
> # successful.
>
> Have you looked at plan9's mk?
>
> http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ and
> http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/mk.html
>
> I haven't used it yet, so can't say how successful it might be.
>
> Regards,
>
>       Jens