Re: [Tack-devel] CVS & the new build system

[tim k. <gt...@di...>]

At 5:23 PM -0400 7/23/06, David Given wrote:
>Gregory T. (tim) Kelly wrote:
>[...]
>> The pmfiles seem quite a bit easier to read than Makefiles.  Do I need to
>> start learning some of this "Extended Context Free syntax" I read about in
>> the LLgen parser generator document?  :-)
>
>Actually, pmfiles are just Lua scripts --- see www.lua.org. LLgen is a tool
>used by the ACK to process grammars; it's very much like yacc or bison. It's
>not used by pm at all.

This lua stuff looks interesting, and the MIT license is very friendly.  I
have a project I've been trying to decouple from the OpenBSD and NetBSD
code trees, and I think I'll try out making it compile with Prime Mover as
the build tool (instead of make).  I'll let you know how it goes :-)

thanks,
tim

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