MASH-MAKE(1)                                         MASH-MAKE(1)

     NAME
          mash-make - builtin `make' functionality

     SYNOPSIS
          load make

          make [ -clear ]
          depends [ target ]
          match pattern
          rules [ pattern ]

     DESCRIPTION
          Make is a loadable builtin for mash. It can be taught about
          dependencies that exist between components of a program and
          rules for reconstructing the components of a program.

          Make will examine file modification times to determine which
          components need to be updated and will issue commands to
          reconstruct them in the correct sequence.  It will update a
          target if any of its prerequisites are more up to date than
          the target or if the target does not exist.

          Typically, dependencies and rules are kept in a file called
          mashfile.  The sequence

               load make
               run mashfile

          is used to load the make builtin and read the rules from
          mashfile.  Thereafter, the command

               make target

          will perform the correct sequence of operations to recon-
          struct target and its dependents.

          A dependency is specified in mash with a line of the form:

               target-list : dependent-list ;

          or

               target-list : dependent-list { rules }  ;

          Each of the targets in target-list depends upon each of the
          dependents in dependent-list. The optional rules specify how
          to build the targets. For example
               lflags = -Cg;
               rotta.dis : rotta.b rotta.m { limbo $lflags rotta.b };
          If the rules are omitted make must be able to infer them

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          from implicit rules.

          An implicit rule is defined with a line of the form:

               pattern :~ dependency { rules }

          If pattern matches a target that make needs to build then
          make will build the target by first making the dependency
          and then applying the rules. The wildcard components of the
          matched target are available in the dependency and the rules
          as variables $1, $2, $3...  with $1 containing the text
          matched by the first wildcard, $2 the second wildcard and so
          on. The whole of the target is available in the variable $0.
          For example,

              /*/*.m :~ $2.m  { cp $2.m /$1/$2.m };
              /module/rotta.m: rotta.m;
              /altmodule/frame.m: frame.m;

          More commonly, implicit rules are defined to provide make
          with knowledge of how to compile limbo source to produce Dis
          format binaries.  Typically,

              *.dis       :~ $1.b     { limbo $lflags $1.b};
              /dis/*.dis  :~ $1.dis   { cp $1.dis /dis};

          A target is built with the command

               make target

          The list of rules can be reset with

               make -clear

          The list of dependencies for a target or for all targets can
          be displayed with the command

               depends [ target ]

          The rules that match a pattern and the components of the
          pattern can be displayed with

               match 'pattern'

          Taking care to hide the pattern from mash file name pattern
          matching with quotes.  The command

               rules [ pattern ]

          will display all the rules or the rules that apply to pat-
          tern pattern (if given).

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     SOURCE
          /appl/cmd/mash/make.b

     SEE ALSO
          mash(1)

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