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 _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
