From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 2 18:58:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hcarp00g.ca.nortel.com (h11s128a248n47.user.nortelnetworks.com [47.248.128.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F56937B43F for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 18:58:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from atrens@nortelnetworks.com) Received: from hcarp00g.ca.nortel.com (hcarp00g.ca.nortel.com [47.196.31.114]) by hcarp00g.ca.nortel.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f431wMK85575 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 21:58:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from atrens@nortelnetworks.com) Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 21:58:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Atrens X-X-Sender: To: Subject: -- recursive make considered harmful ?? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Any considered opinions on this ? http://www.pcug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html I've set up a freebsd-style make system for our project which is blazingly fast on freebsd (and solaris), but sucks lemons on NT (mostly because of Cygwin fork+exec). Anyhow I've taken a lot of heat as a result of this paper, from people who are more talk and less action than myself. Cheers, Andrew. -- +-- | Andrew Atrens Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada. | | All opinions expressed are my own, not those of any employer. | --+ Berkeley had what we called "copycenter", which is "take it down to the copy center and make as many copies as you want". -- Kirk McKusick --+ Schapiro's Explanation: The grass is always greener on the other side -- but that's because they use more manure. --+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message