differences to mms

[hb--]

The MMK-F-NOOPNDSC isn't really a problem but three actions versus one is.

$ ty x.mms
T= this and that
all : $(T)
@ ! $@ done
$(T) :
@cre $(T)
$
$ mms/id
%MMS-I-IDENT, MMS V3.3-4 � Digital Equipment Corporation 1989, 1998. All rights
reserved. � Electronic Data Systems Limited 1995, 1998
$ mms/noaction/desc=x

@cre this and that
! ALL done
$
$ mmk/id
%MMK-I-IDENT, this is the MadGoat Make Utility V4.1
-MMK-I-COPYRIGHT, Copyright (c) 2008, Matthew Madison. See LICENSE.TXT in distr
ibution kit for license information.
$ mmk/noaction/desc=x
%MMK-F-NOOPNDSC, could not open description file x
-RMS-E-FNF, file not found
$ mmk/noaction/desc=x.mms
@cre this and that
@cre this and that
@cre this and that
! ALL done
$

[tesneddon]

The file extension issue has been moved to #54.

[levitte]

That's a neat trick on MMS' part... as far as I can tell from experimenting, it will only run the actions of a multi-target for each separate target if $@ is present among the actions.