[9fans] mkmk

[Steve Simon]

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

[Jens Staal]

Post by Steve Simon
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.
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.