Re: build system rules & algorithms

[John Calcote]

One more comment Mike - I think it would be most instructive (not to 
mention most interesting to the GNU make community) to modify GNU make 
to use "Beta build system" algorithms. I don't really see any conflict 
(off the top of my head) between beta algorithms and makefile syntax, so 
I may just take a stab at it.

John

On 6/9/2009 10:37 PM, John Calcote wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> This is probably the most thought that's gone into make in 25 years. 
> I'm sure I'm wrong, actually, since I'm not very familiar with the 
> current state of the literature, but let me restate to make it an 
> opinoin instead of a statement:
>
> This is really cool stuff. I'm going to download, build and play with 
> tup.
>
> Thanks for the great work!
>
> John
>
> On 6/9/2009 7:08 PM, Mike Shal wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I wrote a paper that analyzes some of the algorithms in make. If you
> > get annoyed when you have a large project and 'make' takes a long time
> > to do nothing, or if you think doing 'make clean' is silly, or if you
> > are just generally intrigued by build systems, you might be interested
> > to read it. If not, maybe it'll help you get to sleep at night :).
> >
> > Much of the information applies to other build systems as well, but I
> > use make specifically because that is what I'm most familiar with. You
> > can find the paper here:
> >
> > http://gittup.org/tup/build_system_rules_and_algorithms.pdf
> >
> > Hope you find it useful!
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
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