link: "Recursive Make Considered Harmful"

[Bob Bishop]

Hi,

At 22:54 08/01/2005, George Georgalis wrote:
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 02:31:22AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>    I can't even get firefox to get past 30 seconds worth of the build
>    before it goes into a stupid configure script loop.
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
// George

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Apologies for late arrival in this discussion.

This whole problem area (fundamentally: "Make Doesn't Scale") was 
well-understood 20 years ago. See for instance: D. M. Tilbrook, P. R. H. 
Place: Tools for the Maintenance and Installation of a large Software 
Distribution. USENIX Summer 1986: 223-237. The approach presented therein 
is robust enough to be still in use today.



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