From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 3 1:57:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.Cadence.COM (mailgate.Cadence.COM [158.140.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B14737B423 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 01:57:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@dmlb.org) Received: from symnt3.Cadence.COM (symnt3.Cadence.COM [194.32.101.100]) by mailgate.Cadence.COM (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA07672; Thu, 3 May 2001 01:45:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc610cam (pc610-cam.cadence.com [194.32.96.210]) by symnt3.Cadence.COM with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id JTJAXBJQ; Thu, 3 May 2001 09:42:13 +0100 Message-ID: <009701c0d3ad$6598a780$d26020c2@Cadence.COM> From: "Duncan Barclay" To: "Andrew Atrens" , References: Subject: Re: -- recursive make considered harmful ?? Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:45:24 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Received: By mailgate.Cadence.COM as BAA07672 at Thu May 3 01:45:41 2001 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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" To: 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