Patent №
US 5,872,977
Granted
1999-02-16
Filed 1997
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
2
kr · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
08908621
A method and apparatus for building a platform dependent makefile from a platform independent "build" file. Accordingly, instead of requiring that a programmer create a plurality of makefiles for a plurality of platforms, the invention enables the programmer to create a single, platform independent build file that may be used across a plurality of platforms. The build file includes arguments that are passed to rules stored in a rules file that create an internal data structure having the information necessary for forming the makefile. The invention then uses the information in this data structure to form the platform dependent makefile.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 89470598
Assignors
THOMPSON, JOHN ALAN
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.