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PMake -- A Tutorial

PMake -- A Tutorial

Adam de Boor

Copyright © 1988, 1989 Adam de Boor

Copyright © 1989 Berkeley Softworks

Copyright © 1988, 1989, 1993 The Regents of the University of California.

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 The Basics of PMake

2.1. Dependency Lines

2.2. Shell Commands

2.3. Variables

2.3.1. Local Variables
2.3.2. Command-line Variables
2.3.3. Global Variables
2.3.4. Environment Variables

2.4. Comments

2.5. Parallelism

2.6. Writing and Debugging a Makefile

2.7. Invoking PMake

2.8. Summary

3 Short-cuts and Other Nice Things

3.1. Transformation Rules
3.2. Including Other Makefiles
3.3. Saving Commands
3.4. Target Attributes
3.5. Special Targets
3.6. Modifying Variable Expansion
3.7. More Exercises

4 PMake for Gods

4.1. Search Paths
4.2. Archives and Libraries
4.3. On the Condition...
4.4. A Shell is a Shell is a Shell
4.5. Compatibility
4.6. DEFCON 3 - Variable Expansion
4.7. DEFCON 2 - The Number of the Beast
4.8. DEFCON 1 - Imitation is the Not the Highest Form of Flattery
4.9. The Way Things Work

5 Answers to Exercises

Glossary of Jargon

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