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Installation of BMake

If you are working in hostile wilderness and do not have access to an appropriately packaged compatible make program, you may try the bmake program found at crufty's.

Let us review together the installation procedure.

Download

We downlad the files bmake.tar.gz and mk.tar.gz distributed by their author:

http://void.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/bmake.tar.gz
http://void.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/mk.tar.gz

In the sequel, we assume that the tarballs were downloaded to ~/distfiles.

Explode

Point your shell to a working directory and explode the tarballs with

% tar xzf ~/distfiles/bmake.tar.gz
% tar xzfC ~/distfiles/mk.tar.gz bmake

Build and install

The tarballs are shipped with a build and install script, that will use /usr/local as installation prefix.

% ./bmake/boot-strap --prefix=/usr/local --install

It is possible to change this prefix, as in

% ./bmake/boot-strap --prefix=${HOME} --install

If the command completes succesfully, the bmake program is then installed under the given prefix PREFIX and the standard macros shipped with the program are in ${PREFIX}/share/mk. If appropriate, use the same installation prefix for BSD Owl Scripts when you later install them.

Portability

The portability of bmake is excellent, I only experienced problems while trying to build it with an obsolete GCC on Solaris 10. Versions of GCC newer as 3.6 seem to build bmake without error.