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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: RE: Makefile Maker
Message-ID: <189@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 87 01:08:44 GMT
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
Lines: 49
Keywords: make

in article <190@fxgrp.UUCP>, ljz@fxgrp.UUCP (Lloyd Zusman, Master Byte Software) says:
> 
> In article <176@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
> 
>>The problem with make -- well ONE of the problems with make -- is that it
>>requires the user to specify the dependencies.  What you really want
>>is something that keeps up with the dependencies automatically as they
>>change.
>> ...
>>We will need a program which removes dependency spec's from a Makefile,
>>and one which creates new dependency spec's.
>> ...
> 
> There already is a program that lets you do this.  It is called "mkmf"
> and I have mentioned it in an earlier posting.  I have determined that
> it indeed is in the public domain.

  [...]


> This program takes a makefile as input and produces a new one as
> output.  It automatically recalculates all the dependencies every time
> it is run ...


Com'on guys!! Read the posting!  The little program and Makefile paradigm
I posted automatically recalculates the dependancies on a file-by-file
basis, ONLY when a file is remade.  "mkmf", as you described it, goes
through ALL files every time ONE changes.  That was the point.
I don't make it out to be profound, but when you are working on one
file in a large archive, it is fast and foolproof.  The "depend" which somebody
posted earlier also reads through all files, and requires manual 
intervention.

That's enough "Bah-Humbug".  Merry Christmas.


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