The convert_all_fpmake.sh script generates the Makefile.fpc's for calling fpmake. It does that for all packages in sub-directories of the current directory. The Makefile.fpc's are based on the Makefile.fpmake.template and the Makefile.fpmake.bs.template, the latter for packages that are needed to bootstrap the fpmkunit. Note that the fpmkunint-package is skipped by this script, since it's Makefile.fpc is very different from the others. For generating the utils-makefiles do: cd utils fpcm/convert_all_fpmake.sh -d ../../packages -p fpcm For generating the packages-makefiles: cd packages ../utils/fpcm/convert_all_fpmake.sh -p ../utils/fpcm