At 08:06 AM 12/8/2001 -0500, James Mastros wrote:
On the other end of the spectrum, Microsoft nmake can't even understand ;
within a commandline. On win9x, IIRC, it has very strange quoting
conventions.
This has nothing to do with Make. It's a shell thing. The line gets sent
out mostly
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
Either way, just yesterday I was commenting to Dan that we could forego one
more external dependency by doing dependencies a la make, rather than
via. (The idea being that an initial bootstrap is rather straightforward.
Then again, how weighty
Bryan C. Warnock:
# Is there any reason why we couldn't break up configure (when
# it comes into
# being) into chunks?
#
# The last 5.7.2 grab I have puts the current one at 17.5 Klines. It's
# weighty, a beast to maintain, and a beast to keep running
# through (should
# something break
On Friday 07 December 2001 03:32 am, Brent Dax wrote:
I have no idea how many times this has been suggested. :^)
Well, then one more is a relatively small burden to bear. ;-)
Seriously, the only problem I can see with it is that the modules will
have to be run in a specific order. If you
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
On Friday 07 December 2001 03:32 am, Brent Dax wrote:
I have no idea how many times this has been suggested. :^)
Dependency-ish rules, a la make. Maybe even tied into the actual build
itself. I don't think getting them to run in the right
On Friday 07 December 2001 08:43 am, Andy Dougherty wrote:
Funny you should mention that, because Perl's Configure does things in
order determined by 'Dependency-ish rules, a la make'. Configure is
indeed built in just the way you suggest.
Except, of course, for being one big honking file.
On Friday 07 December 2001 09:18 am, Andy Dougherty wrote:
Except, of course, for being one big honking file.
That's a mere implementation detail :-). (Though one that's admittedly
quite intimidating!) It isn't one big file until the very very end step.
There's no reason it couldn't be a
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
On Friday 07 December 2001 09:18 am, Andy Dougherty wrote:
The key idea is that the pumpkin holder runs 'make' ONCE to determine the
dependencies and record the proper order to run the units in a file.
End-users don't have to redetermine that
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Andy Dougherty wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
On Friday 07 December 2001 08:43 am, Andy Dougherty wrote:
Funny you should mention that, because Perl's Configure does things in
order determined by 'Dependency-ish rules, a la make'. Configure is
