From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 2 21:27:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4FA637B422 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 21:26:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 24454 invoked by uid 100); 3 May 2001 04:26:35 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15088.56827.109787.425047@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 23:26:35 -0500 To: Andrew Atrens Cc: Subject: Re: -- recursive make considered harmful ?? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Atrens 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 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. 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