On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 04:27:10PM +0100, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 2015-01-14 00:20, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] > >I think it's time to reduce clutter and duplication by migrating such > >common stuff into one common.mak file. Question is, where should that > >file sit? One candidate is tools/ but it's not really a tool. Another > >candidate is dmd/src/ because that would be the first thing anyone > >depends on. > > Oh God, please no. I really, really hate that the makefiles are are > looking in folders outside of the repositories.
+1. Makefiles that reference paths outside the repo are really really evil. They only ever work for the specific setup the author has, and breaks for everybody else. > >Ideas? > > If you really want to do something like this I would recommend > creating a new repository, acting like a super repository, including > the other repositories as submodules. Then you can create a new > makefile that builds everything. Although, I still don't want the > makefiles in the existing repositories be dependent on the new > repository. [...] +1, this is a much better approach than introducing yet more extra-repo hard-coded paths into the makefiles. There are too many of those already. T -- Truth, Sir, is a cow which will give [skeptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. -- Sam. Johnson