From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] `mk` (from Plan9 ports) efficiency related issue
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:51:46 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinwmOLn7Bx1tErPg=3v3sw0HWV5s7jmX2QoC3uH@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimW7DGwc84ZpWiEmP0OycA8cGv+SCpPs8n3ztmQ@mail.gmail.com>
>> Your email also doesn't explain why you cannot generate a "normal"
>> mk file.
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand the question. What do you mean by
> "generating a normal mk file"?
> A) Do you mean why am I using a generator that writes the `mk`
> script instead of writing the `mk` script myself by hand? The answer
> to this is complexity: writing `mk` is Ok when you have a simple
> application to build, but as the application grows larger so does the
> make script. (And using meta rules is not always possible.)
> B) Why isn't the output script a "normal" `mk` script? Actually is
> a very simple script (no meta-rules, no shell expansion, etc.). It's
> just big. :)
>
>
a normal mkfile does have meta-rules and if you have so many targets
wouldn't it make sense to have more mkfiles?
--
Federico G. Benavento
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-17 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-17 14:47 Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2011-01-17 14:59 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-17 15:05 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2011-01-17 16:50 ` Bakul Shah
2011-01-17 16:56 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-17 18:36 ` Bakul Shah
2011-01-17 19:33 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2011-01-17 19:59 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2011-01-17 20:30 ` Bakul Shah
2011-01-17 15:00 ` Robert Raschke
2011-01-17 15:02 ` Robert Raschke
2011-01-17 15:18 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-17 15:33 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2011-01-17 15:51 ` Federico G. Benavento [this message]
2011-01-17 15:53 ` Robert Raschke
2011-01-17 16:02 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-01-17 16:45 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2011-01-17 17:31 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2011-01-17 17:46 ` Federico G. Benavento
2011-01-17 17:51 ` Federico G. Benavento
2011-01-18 6:09 ` Andy Spencer
2011-01-18 13:26 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-17 15:21 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
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