A CASE-Oriented Configuration Management Agent

Traditional make utilities usually lack the necessary functionality for the management of multiple configurations in one source code tree. Our CASE-oriented configuration management agent, the Viennese Make (VMake) is platform-independent and runs currently on a number of UNIX systems and on Open \.'MS. VMake supports, in addition to common m•ke features, a number of CASE tasks in sub-agents, like automatic code generation, version management (using publically available RCS and CVS from a common repository), and automated high-level source code processing feature~, like language bindings between C, LISP and FORTRAN as well as extraction of reference manuals. VMake maintains automatically a private project file which contains up-to-date symbolic definitions of source code flies, modules, libraries, language binding mechanisms, application executables, and all build targets. Dependencies between these objects are extracted from local description files or generated automatically from source code files. This enforces compact description files and allows efficient management of large-scale software projects. VMake is based on a publically available LISP interpreter[l]. K~ywordsconfiguration management, automatic code generation, parallelization, CASE, object oriented techniques