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Re: suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense
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Robert P. J. Day |
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Re: suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense |
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Sat, 15 Jan 2005 14:10:50 -0500 (EST) |
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> "Robert P. J. Day" wrote:
> > [...]
> > and it was just yesterday that it suddenly dawned on me how to make
> > this much simpler, and only after i started redesigning the structure
> > did it occur to me that this might be what miller's paper might be
> > talking about.
>
> It is not. Peter Miller's emphasis is about make being able to
> traverse the whole dependency tree the way it reckons, rather that
> traversing it a sub-tree at a time in the order dictated by the
> top-level makefile without ever being able to see the whole tree at
> once. E.g. using `include' rather than `$(MAKE)'.
yes, i see what you mean. i hadn't actually finished the paper, but i
thought i could see what he was getting at.
still, i think philosophically there's some common ground -- i'm
seeing a definite advantage in taking control of the lower-level parts
of the build process and pulling them back to the top of the tree so i
can control the entire process all at the top level (even to the
extent, as i described in my next posting, of controlling build
options of lower levels at the very top).
i'll think on this some more. thanks for the feedback.
rday
- suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense, Robert P. J. Day, 2005/01/14
- Re: suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense, Alessandro Vesely, 2005/01/15
- Re: suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense,
Robert P. J. Day <=
- Re: suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense, Boris Kolpackov, 2005/01/18
- Re: suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense, Noel Yap, 2005/01/19
- Re: suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense, Paul D. Smith, 2005/01/19
- Re: suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense, Noel Yap, 2005/01/19
- Re: suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense, Boris Kolpackov, 2005/01/19
- Re: suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense, Paul D. Smith, 2005/01/19
- RE: suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense, twk, 2005/01/19