Re: non recursive makefiles

[Marcus Müller]

On 10.01.2005, at 13:38, Nicola Pero wrote:
> That is correct.  The way gnustep-make works is not easily changed 
> unless
> we rewrite everything.  There are some deeply complicated issues in 
> what
> gnustep-make is supposed to do that 'force' the current design and
> solutions.  It can't really be changed unless we drop make (or maybe 
> use
> new GNU make extensions not available on old platforms).

Sorry for stepping in so late, but what exactly are these extensions? 
You're currently preprocessing gstep-make prior to installing it, so 
depending on the used gmake version these extensions could be used 
conditionally (by preprocessing gstep-make upon installation). The 
result would be a parallizable gstep-make on recent versions of gmake 
and a still working version for older versions of gmake - granted, my 
assumption is correct and the extensions do the trick without further 
rewrites being necessary.

IMHO precompiled headers support is much more important as the 
compilation speed-up is enormous (day to day experience on Mac OS X 
using Xcode).


Cheers,

  Marcus

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