From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3016266.MVcRYAfMTf@coil> References: <20130323100519.GA3980@polynum.com> <2087087D-B83B-43EE-8CA9-D3B578C91938@gmail.com> <3016266.MVcRYAfMTf@coil> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:09:23 +0100 Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?B?QmVuY2UgRsOhYmnDoW4=?= To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bdc1c0c567a2004d8bdd68a Subject: Re: [9fans] mk and transitive dependencies (was: gcc not an option for Plan9) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3470908a-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --047d7bdc1c0c567a2004d8bdd68a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 What if you want to make postscript from troff files? Mk is a general tool and a good one. But it will never have intricate knowledge about the files it works on. 2013/3/25 dexen deVries > > if mk understood 8c's construct ``#pragma lib "libbio.a"'' and used it to > link > correct libraries, it could be said to understand the actual dependencies > as > expressed by code. > > of course, the deeper you go into this rabbit hole, the closer you get to > something resembling GNU autotools. > > --047d7bdc1c0c567a2004d8bdd68a Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
What if you want to make postscript from troff files?
= Mk is a general tool and a good one. But it will never
have intri= cate knowledge about the files it works on.
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2013/3/25 dexen deVries &l= t;dexen.devrie= s@gmail.com>
if mk understood 8c's construct ``#pragma lib "libbio.a"'= ' and used it to link
correct libraries, it could be said to understand the actual dependencies a= s
expressed by code.

of course, the deeper you go into this rabbit hole, the closer you get to something resembling GNU autotools.

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