On Aug 23, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:24:45PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote:
To sum up: for now, I'm working on being able to support:
$(addprefix runtime/builtin,$(notdir $(wildcard languages/tcl/
runtime/builtin/*.pir)))
Which looks like gmake, but will be expanded at config time: once we
fixup where/when language makefiles are generated, this will simplify
to:
$(wildcard runtime/builtin/*.pir)
I think it's a mistake to use a make-like syntax. That's just
going to
lead to maintenance confusion down the road. Someone, someday is
going to change
it thinking that's it's just GNU make syntax.
I agree, that could be an issue, but we can easily have this syntax
generate an exception if an unexpected keyword is generated. I'll see
if I can add that to my work in progress.
This particular tradeoff of maintenance confusion on makefiles is a
step in the right direction, IMO.
Why don't you just embed blocks of Perl code instead of inventing a
new
syntax?
The whole point of using the gmake syntax is that it is the opposite
of "inventing a new syntax". It is reusing the portions we need from
an existing syntax.
As to just using perl: that makes it more complicated for the people
who have to maintain the rules, by requiring more code to do the same
thing, and then duplicating that code across N uses in M makefiles.
That said, I don't particularly care about the actual syntax as long
as I can declare these sorts of things with a minimal fuss. But in
place of a decision from Chip, I'll go with this for now.
Regards.
--
Will "Coke" Coleda
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