On 2014-01-09 00:16, H. S. Teoh wrote:
<offtopic rant> A *shell script* could do better than make, by actually making sure that everything is recompiled and up-to-date
I use a shell script for most of my projects. It's usually a one line shell script, just to not have to retype all flags every time.
The fact that `make clean` exists at all, is a testament to just how broken the whole thing is (and the saddest thing is that `make clean` has come to be accepted as a part of life, when it shouldn't even exist in the first place, had build systems been designed correctly to begin with).
What if you change the makefile, say adding a flag? That flag might require the whole project to be rebuilt. How should that be handled automatically? Always to a full rebuild if the makefile has been changed?
-- /Jacob Carlborg
