Re: link: "Recursive Make Considered Harmful"

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On Sunday, 9. January 2005 16:39, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > I've been mulling over the pdf file linked here
> > http://www.pcug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html
> > Recursive Make Considered Harmful, Peter Miller
> This paper outlines a lot of problems of gmake and the use of gmake.
> It doesn't apply to BSD make so such, because most of our tree uses
> very small Makefiles which can't be merged into a simple master
> Makefile without a lot of hassle, possible even reducing speed for
> certain usage patterns.

quite contrary. i think our build system is nice and polished, but sucks wr=
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speed. it runs down the tree multiple times. that's just evil. here, figuri=
ng=20
out that nothing has to be done (make quickworld after make quickworld) nee=
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several minutes. with a complete dependancy graph, this could be figured ou=
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in seconds (see kernel make).

cheers
  simon

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