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[ excerpt from developer's www site ]
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Jam is a small open-source build tool that can be used as a replacement
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for Make. Even though Jam is a lot simpler to use than Make, it is
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far more powerful and easy to master. It already works on a large
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variety of platforms (Unix, Windows, OS/2, VMS, MacOS, BeOS, etc..),
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it is trivial to port, and its design is sufficiently clear to allow
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any average programmer to extend it with advanced features at will.
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The main differences between Jam and Make are the following:
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- Jam uses "Jamfiles" instead of "Makefiles".
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- Jamfiles do not normally contain toolset-specific rules or actions.
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They're thus portable among distinct compilers
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- Jamfiles are a lot simpler than Makefiles to write and understand,
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while providing the same functionality, and much, much more !!
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WWW: http://freetype.sourceforge.net/jam/
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-- lioux@FreeBSD.org
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