I've got a set of tools and management bits and pieces I've been using quite successfully under NetBSD but I'm having trouble migrating these to a Linux environment. I had an abortive attempt at converting these to use GNU make but found this to be too much pain ... unfortunately there seems to be at least equal amount of pain trying to track down precompiled binary packages of pmake on various Linux distributions[1] - I'm trying to get it working for RedHat and SuSE at this point ... Instead of looking for packaged versions, I thought I'd try copying out the version that's bundled with pkgsrc however this seems to rely on an nbcompat layer which would force me to compile up more of the pkgsrc tool chain than I want in this instance ... unless I'm off-track here tand his is the only way to do it using the pkgsrc bootstrap Alternatively, are there reasonably current stand-alone versions of pmake to be had that would compile under Linux that someone can point me at[3]? It's meant to be portable[4], according to the label on the tin ... :) Regards, Malcolm [1] ubuntu seems to be the exception - I've found a mostly working version of pmake in freebsd-buildtools as well as a pmake package which seem to do the right thing, but without a binary package specific to the distro I need it on, I'll need to compile and link it in-situ I think [2] to add to the confusion, pmake.sourceforge.net seems to be a dead python make project, which is annoying as it's referenced in vulnerability reports for the real pmake (cf http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67495) [3] I've got almost exactly the same question about mtree, if anyone has hints on where to find current source for that which would work under Linux too, that would be appreciated [4] unless this means 'parallel', I never got a good answer to this -- Malcolm Herbert mjch%mjch.net@localhost
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