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Software Configuration Management : Software Build Tools

Some of the major tools for the build of software systems.

Software Configuration Management

Source Code Control Tools

GNU Make Utility

Online documentation and guide to how to write and use Makefiles.

Book: Managing Projects With Make

A good introduction to the facilities available in the make program, and how to apply them to complex configuration management tasks such as recursive builds.
Also compares the various features in the different versions of the make program on different systems.
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Book: Software Portability with imake

A very good introduction to the problems of cross-platform portability, and how these can be managed using the imake program that works on top of make. Also shows how imake can be used for builds on a single platform to allow the build rules and requirements to be specified in much more "high-level" terms and then using imake to generate the Makefile automatically to avoid mistakes.
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GNU Make

Online documentation and guide to how to write and use Makefiles.

Open Development Environment (ODE)

IBM's Open Development Environment (ODE) is a multi-platform development environment which facilitates parallel development of code. ODE has the ability to have a base software build, known as a backing build, and the ability for a user to create a delta build from the base build, known as a sandbox. Sandboxes enable a programmer to make local changes to entire builds without having to have an entire copy of both the source code and build output.
Among other features in ODE is the base set of "rules" functionality. These rules define how a build is to be done. The build process is done in passes, such that everything in a given pass must be completed before the next pass begins. An example of this is: build all object files, create static libraries, create program executables, finally copy all installables to a given location. These rules support building of C/C++ and Java applications, but are not limited to these. The rules can be enhanced to add support for new programming languages and compilers (as well as new passes). In addition to the above function, ODE provides dependency generation and maintance so builds will be done accurately.

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