Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 23:26:35 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortelnetworks.com> Cc: <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: -- recursive make considered harmful ?? Message-ID: <15088.56827.109787.425047@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0105022151001.82576-100000@hcarp00g.ca.nortel.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0105022151001.82576-100000@hcarp00g.ca.nortel.com>
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Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortelnetworks.com> types: > 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). It's an interesting approach to the problems with Make, and hopefully will be more successful than the others that exist. Most people who've attacked the problem simply punted on make completely. Jam <URL: http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html > seems to be the most popular of the bunch, but none of them are really popular, largely because they aren't backwards compatible with make. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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