Idea: --only-make-prerequisites

2019-01-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
Idea: --only-make-prerequisites So $ make --only-make-prerequisites netsift would only make myconfdir/$J.pre myconfdir/$J.cf and stop before the second line of netsift:myconfdir/$J.pre myconfdir/$J.cf cat zz > yy ln q r /etc --only-make-prerequisites is for folks that want to chec

Re: Idea: --only-make-prerequisites

2019-01-18 Thread Edward Welbourne
Dan Jacobson (18 January 2019 08:49) > --only-make-prerequisites is for folks that want to check and get > things ready first, before the President arrives for the button > pushing ceremony. I can see other uses for it ;^> When I'm hacking on code, and intend to hack some more, it's sometimes nic

GNU Make for Java projects

2019-01-18 Thread Blake McBride
Greetings, I have used GNU Make for many years on C projects. Over the last 10 or more years, I have been working mainly in Java. There are several build tools that are popular in the Java world such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle. I have found Make very easy to understand and use. Given the amount

Re: GNU Make for Java projects

2019-01-18 Thread Henrik Carlqvist
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 05:42:44 -0600 Blake McBride wrote: > I have found Make very easy to understand and use. Given the amount of > work they do in the background, I have found build tools such as Maven > and Gradle to be very confusing. When I some years ago wrote Android apps I found eclipse to