D I S S E R T A T I O N

VMAKE - A CASE-Oriented Configuration
Management Utility

ausgeführt zum Zwecke der Erlangung des akademischen Grades
eines Doktors der technischen Wissenschaften
eingereicht an der Technischen Universität Wien
Fakultät für Elektrotechnik

von

Walter Tuppa

Leopold Ernstgasse 21/15
A-1170 Wien
Matr.-Nr. 8526156
geboren am 22. September 1966 in Wien

Wien, im Oktober 1996

• Kurzfassung
• Abstract
• Acknowledgment
• Terminology
• 1 Standard Make Utilities
  • 1.1 Make
    • 1.1.1 Make Macro Names
    • 1.1.2 Creating Include Dependences
    • 1.1.3 Default Actions
  • 1.2 MMS
  • 1.3 Imake
  • 1.4 Jam
    • 1.4.1 Defining New Rules
    • 1.4.2 Bootstrapping Jam
  • 1.5 Commercial Solutions
• 2 Requirements for a CASE Environment
• 3 The Vienna Make Utility
  • 3.1 Projects
  • 3.2 Directories and Files
    • 3.2.1 Include Dependences
    • 3.2.2 CASE Extensions
  • 3.3 Project Save Files
  • 3.4 Installed Projects Save Files
• 4 Rule Definitions
  • 4.1 Project Definition
    • 4.1.1 Project Configuration
    • 4.1.2 External Files
  • 4.2 Module Definition
    • 4.2.1 Grouping of Files
    • 4.2.2 Compilation, Libraries and Programs
    • 4.2.3 Automatic Code Generation
    • 4.2.4 Program Execution
    • 4.2.5 Command Line Definition and Environment
  • 4.3 Conditional Forms
  • 4.4 Defining New Rules
• 5 Configurations
  • 5.1 Predefined Configurations
  • 5.2 Predefined Symbolic Names
• 6 CASE Tools
  • 6.1 Universal Function Generator
    • 6.1.1 Definition of a Tuple
    • 6.1.2 UNFUG Control Statements
  • 6.2 Tool Abstraction Concept
    • 6.2.1 Extracting Information
      • Parameter documentation
    • 6.2.2 Language Binding
      • FORTRAN/C Binding
      • C/FORTRAN Binding
      • C/VLisp Binding
      • C++/VLisp Binding
    • 6.2.3 Documentation
      • Documentation Atoms
      • Documentation Isotopes
      • Reference Entries
      • Manuals
  • 6.3 External Code Generators
  • 6.4 Code Version Management
  • 6.5 Code Releases
  • 6.6 Global Installation
• 7 Modes of VMake
  • 7.1 Evaluating Modes
    • 7.1.1 Goals
    • 7.1.2 Batch Operation
    • 7.1.3 Interactive Operation
  • 7.2 Code Management Mode
  • 7.3 Release and Patch Generation
    • 7.3.1 Tagged Releases/Patches
    • 7.3.2 Applying patches
  • 7.4 Project Installation
  • 7.5 Other Modes
• 8 Algorithm of VMake
  • 8.1 Checking Dependences
  • 8.2 Resolving Symbolic Names
  • 8.3 VMake Class System
    • 8.3.1 States of Files
    • 8.3.2 Working Projects
    • 8.3.3 Installed Projects
  • 8.4 TAC Classes
  • 8.5 Parallel Execution
• 9 Current Usage of VMake
• 10 Future Aspects
• A Vienna Base System
  • A.1 Definition of a Callback
  • A.2 Error System
  • A.3 Regular Expressions
  • A.4 Unit Calculations
  • A.5 System Interface
  • A.6 Data Compression
  • A.7 VBS Data Types
• B Vienna LISP Interpreter
  • B.1 The Interpreter
  • B.2 Byte Code Compiler
• C The VMake Project
  • C.1 Bootstrapping VMake
• D Examples of External Rules
  • D.1 Definition of Bison-Target
  • D.2 Definition of Flex-Target
  • D.3 Definition of Voops-Target
  • D.4 Debugging Features
• E Defining new Configurations
  • E.1 System Defines
  • E.2 Defining System Commands
  • E.3 Example Configuration
• Literatur
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