Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:45:24 +0100 From: "Duncan Barclay" <dmlb@dmlb.org> To: "Andrew Atrens" <atrens@nortelnetworks.com>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: -- recursive make considered harmful ?? Message-ID: <009701c0d3ad$6598a780$d26020c2@Cadence.COM> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0105022151001.82576-100000@hcarp00g.ca.nortel.com>
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Hi It's a good paper. I've done an implmentation of a build system that works this way. Take a look at http://www.ragnet.demon.co.uk/RM/remake.html Duncan -- _____________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@dmlb.org | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. dmlb@freebsd.org| Steven King ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Atrens" <atrens@nortelnetworks.com> To: <chat@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 2:58 AM Subject: -- recursive make considered harmful ?? > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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