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Subject: Re: [9fans] mkmk
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2011-12-05 14:26, Steve Simon skrev:
> mkmk is in the contrib package contrib/mkmk
>
> http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9_contrib/1/mkmk
>
> I would say mkmk was an interesting experiment rather than a resounding success.
>
> The idea was to simplify re-porting foreign code to plan9 by autogenerating the
> mkfile from just the C source and some heuristics. Also important to me is that
> the generated mkfiles should be simple and cleanly formatted.
>
> I use an rc(1) script (called 9port) per package which would tidy it and run mkmk
> with the apropriate args - it somtimes needs a bit of help. The script may then
> be reused to quickly re-port the latest version of the code to plan9.
>
> Examples here:
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/steve/root/sys/src/cmd/mkmk/9port/
>
> The lack of success came when trying to port bigger projects like the
> Apache portable runtime, or up to date ghostscript.
>
> -Steve
>

Personally I have found mkmk very impressive and I have been using it
for some attempted ports that I am working with in my spare time.