On 4/11/15 12:25 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 23:04:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Martin Nowak added recently a nice feature to the Phobos makefile: by
specifying e.g.
make std/stdio.test
only the unittests for std/stdio.d would build and run. This greatly
improves development turnaround for Phobos.
FWIW, in most cases you can also do this simply by running:
dmd -unittest -main -run stdio.d
It won't work if other modules have changed (compared to the dmd in your
PATH).
The actual command line generated by is:
../dmd/src/dmd -conf= -I../druntime/import -w -dip25 -m64 -g -debug
-main -unittest generated/osx/debug/64/libphobos2.a -defaultlib=
-debuglib= -L-lcurl -run std/stdio.d
So having this in the makefile:
* makes sure the library is built automatically
* links the right external libs
* makes sure command line options such as -dip25 are not omitted
* makes sure there's no interference from dmd.conf files
* links the correct library
* ...
So if your point was it can be done just worse, sure.
Andrei
