Porting BSD make to SunOS

September 1999
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> 
http://wolfram.schneider.org

INTRODUCTION
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BSD make (also known als pmake) is a make implementation used by many
BSD based operating systems (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS)
for building the complete OS.

I ported pmake to SunOS 5.5.1, 5.6, and 5.7. The port based on the
FreeBSD-4.0-current make version from 9th September 1999.

The directory structure:


bin/make	make binary
doc/		Pmake documentation
man/		Pmake Manpage
share/mk/	system makefile directory (from FreeBSD 4.0)


INSTALLING: 
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extract the file archive in /usr/local.

$ cd /usr/local
$ zcat /tmp/pmake-XYZ.tgz | tar xfv -

Now you are done ;-)


HACKING
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If you don't have write access to /usr/local, you can use also another
directory, e.g. your home directory. In this case you must edit the
make binary and replace the hard-wired /usr/local/share/mk filename
with the new filename. I added a list of slashes '/' as placeholder
for long directories. E.g.  to replace /usr/local/share/mk with
/home/wosch/share/mk, run this perl script:

$ perl -i.bak -npe 's%///////////////////////usr/local/share/mk%//////////////////////home/wosch/share/mk%' make

NOTE: make sure that you don't delete or add characters! The number
of bytes must be the same as before. Otherwise, the binary
will not run and dump core.

-wosch