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.TH MASH-MAKE 1
.SH NAME
mash-make \- builtin `make' functionality
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B load make
.B make
[
.I -clear
]
.br
.B depends
[
.I target
]
.br
.B match
.I pattern
.br
.B rules
[
.I pattern
]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Make
is a loadable builtin for
.IR mash .
It can be taught about dependencies that exist between components of a program and
rules for reconstructing the components of a program.
.PP
.I 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.
.PP
Typically, dependencies and rules are kept in a file called
.BR mashfile .
The sequence
.PP
.EX
load make
run mashfile
.EE
.PP
is used to load the
.I make
builtin and read the rules from
.BR mashfile .
Thereafter, the command
.IP
.B make
.I target
.PP
will perform the correct sequence of operations to reconstruct
.I target
and its dependents.
.PP
A dependency is specified in
.I mash
with a line of the form:
.IP
.IB target-list " : " dependent-list " ; "
.PP
or
.IP
.IB target-list " : " dependent-list " { " rules " } ;"
.PP
Each of the targets in
.I target-list
depends upon each of the dependents in
.IR dependent-list .
The optional
.I rules
specify how to build the targets. For example
.EX
lflags = -Cg;
rotta.dis : rotta.b rotta.m { limbo $lflags rotta.b };
.EE
If the rules are omitted
.I make
must be able to infer them from implicit rules.
.PP
An implicit rule is defined with a line of the form:
.IP
.I pattern
.B :~
.I dependency
.B {
.I rules
.B }
.PP
If
.I pattern
matches a target that
.I make
needs to build then
.I make
will build the target by first making the
.I dependency
and then applying the
.IR rules .
The wildcard components of the matched target are available in
the
.I dependency
and the
.I rules
as variables
.BR $1 ,
.BR $2 ,
.BR $3 ...
with
.B $1
containing the text matched by the first wildcard,
.B $2
the second wildcard
and so on. The whole of the target is available in the variable
.BR $0 .
For example,
.PP
.EX
/*/*.m :~ $2.m { cp $2.m /$1/$2.m };
/module/rotta.m: rotta.m;
/altmodule/frame.m: frame.m;
.EE
.PP
More commonly, implicit rules are defined to provide
.I make
with knowledge of how to compile
.I limbo
source to produce
.I Dis
format binaries.
Typically,
.PP
.EX
*.dis :~ $1.b { limbo $lflags $1.b};
/dis/*.dis :~ $1.dis { cp $1.dis /dis};
.EE
.PP
A target is built with the command
.IP
.B make
.I target
.PP
The list of rules can be reset with
.IP
.B make -clear
.PP
The list of dependencies for a target or for all targets can be
displayed with the command
.IP
.B depends
[
.I target
]
.PP
The rules that match a pattern and the components of the pattern
can be displayed with
.IP
.B match
.BI ' pattern '
.PP
Taking care to hide the pattern from
.I mash
file name pattern matching with quotes.
The command
.IP
.B rules
[
.I pattern
]
.PP
will display all the rules or the rules that apply to pattern
.I pattern
(if given).
.SH SOURCE
.B /appl/cmd/mash/make.b
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR mash (1)