From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 15:38:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hdqc3kfr.fsf@qrnik.zagroda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094361655.3352.476.camel@pelican.wigram> (skaller@users.sourceforge.net's message of "05 Sep 2004 15:20:56 +1000")
skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> The basic problem is that make assumes a fixed set
> of target outputs and has rules like:
>
> A depends on B: use P to make A from B
>
> This means you have to know all the outputs,
> dependencies, and build rules in advance
> which is *never* the case on any realistic system.
>
> The way forward is to rethink the fundamentals.
> Interscript works like this:
>
> if anything changes rebuild
Rebuild what? Everything? It's not an option. When I repeatedly make
a change in one file and try how it works, it would be silly to wait
several minutes for recompilation of everything else.
It would be interesting to invent some alternative paradigm, but I've
never seen one.
--
__("< Marcin Kowalczyk
\__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl
^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/
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Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-04 16:26 Jason Hickey
2004-09-04 17:42 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-09-04 18:27 ` chris.danx
2004-09-04 19:59 ` Matthieu Dubuget
2004-09-05 5:20 ` skaller
2004-09-05 13:20 ` David Brown
2004-09-05 14:31 ` skaller
2004-09-05 16:02 ` David Brown
2004-09-05 16:14 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-09-05 15:07 ` chris.danx
2004-09-05 15:53 ` skaller
2004-09-06 0:25 ` chris.danx
2004-09-06 8:17 ` skaller
2004-09-05 13:38 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk [this message]
2004-09-05 14:50 ` chris.danx
2004-09-05 15:01 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 15:44 ` chris.danx
2004-09-05 16:10 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 17:38 ` skaller
2004-09-05 17:15 ` skaller
2004-09-05 16:11 ` skaller
2004-09-05 16:21 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 19:09 ` skaller
2004-09-05 15:08 ` skaller
2004-09-05 15:38 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 17:04 ` skaller
2004-09-05 18:45 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 20:12 ` skaller
2004-09-05 21:30 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 22:41 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-06 12:13 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 16:09 ` David Brown
2004-09-05 18:31 ` skaller
2004-09-06 10:56 ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-09-06 15:51 ` skaller
2004-09-06 7:11 ` Christian Lindig
2004-09-06 12:20 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-06 14:12 ` Christian Lindig
2004-09-06 1:06 ` Richard Jones
2004-09-06 1:50 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-06 9:09 ` skaller
2004-09-06 8:59 ` skaller
2004-09-04 23:58 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-09-05 1:18 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-05 1:26 ` [Caml-list] Perl Conjury (alternative to Unix make) james woodyatt
2004-09-05 2:03 ` [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 David Brown
2004-09-05 2:37 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-05 6:24 ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-09-05 20:38 ` Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 0:12 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-06 0:33 ` [Omake] " Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 3:54 ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-06 6:39 ` Jason Hickey
2004-09-06 8:10 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-06 7:50 ` [Omake] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-09-06 14:52 ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-06 17:20 ` skaller
2004-09-06 9:52 ` skaller
2004-09-06 15:10 ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-07 13:26 ` David Brown
2004-09-06 1:14 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-06 2:35 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-06 9:38 ` skaller
2004-09-06 11:34 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-09-06 16:28 ` skaller
2004-09-06 16:42 ` Christopher A. Watford
2004-09-06 16:59 ` Richard Jones
2004-09-07 2:21 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-07 6:17 ` skaller
2004-09-07 8:24 ` Benjamin Geer
2004-09-07 13:35 ` David Brown
2004-09-06 7:51 ` Daniel Andor
2004-09-05 20:38 ` Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-05 22:57 ` Olivier Grisel
2004-09-06 0:17 ` Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 13:31 ` Olivier Grisel
2004-09-06 19:28 ` [Caml-list] Godi for OMake [Was: Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1] Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 20:18 ` Olivier Grisel
[not found] ` <41537DAE.1050601@cs.caltech.edu>
2004-09-24 13:50 ` Olivier Grisel
2004-09-24 18:37 ` [Caml-list] OCamlFind support in OMake [Was: Godi for OMake] Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-04 18:01 ` [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 Yaron Minsky
2004-09-05 1:38 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-09-05 6:12 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2004-09-05 12:48 ` Yaron Minsky
2004-09-05 20:39 ` Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 12:24 Jason Smith
2004-09-06 15:54 ` Christopher A. Watford
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