[freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-09-05 Thread Timm Murray
<> > The problem with make is javac has a stupid startup time, so is best called > with 30+ files at > once. Make likes to call things sequentially. ant is designed to call javac > once with > all the filenames. That's why I use Jikes :) ___ devl ma

Re: [freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-09-05 Thread Timm Murray
<> > The problem with make is javac has a stupid startup time, so is best called with 30+ >files at > once. Make likes to call things sequentially. ant is designed to call javac once >with > all the filenames. That's why I use Jikes :) ___ devl mai

[freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-09-04 Thread Dan Merillat
Matthew Toseland writes: > > --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:59:50AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > I would like to encourage those still using the Makefile an

Re: [freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-09-04 Thread Dan Merillat
Matthew Toseland writes: > > --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:59:50AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > I would like to encourage those still using the Makefile a

[freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-08-29 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:59:50AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > I would like to encourage those still using the Makefile and "make" to > switch to Ant (downloadable from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/), > as it is a pain to have to update both Makefile and build.xml when > modifications are made,

[freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-08-29 Thread Timm Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 August 2002 15:17, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:59:50AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > I would like to encourage those still using the Makefile and "make" to > > switch to Ant (downloadable from http://jakarta.apach

[freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-08-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 05:41:01PM -0500, Timm Murray wrote: > > More powerful than GNU make? That's difficult to believe... but we don't > > use make as make, we basically call a shell script. > > GNU Make works very well for C files on a *nix-like system. I will probably regret getting into thi

Re: [freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-08-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 05:41:01PM -0500, Timm Murray wrote: > > More powerful than GNU make? That's difficult to believe... but we don't > > use make as make, we basically call a shell script. > > GNU Make works very well for C files on a *nix-like system. I will probably regret getting into th

Re: [freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-08-29 Thread Timm Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 August 2002 15:17, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:59:50AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > I would like to encourage those still using the Makefile and "make" to > > switch to Ant (downloadable from http://jakarta.apac

[freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-08-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:17:44PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > More powerful than GNU make? That's difficult to believe... but we don't > use make as make, we basically call a shell script. Well, it is certainly easier to do more complex stuff with Ant than with make, obviously you could prob

Re: [freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-08-29 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:17:44PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > More powerful than GNU make? That's difficult to believe... but we don't > use make as make, we basically call a shell script. Well, it is certainly easier to do more complex stuff with Ant than with make, obviously you could pro

Re: [freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-08-29 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:59:50AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > I would like to encourage those still using the Makefile and "make" to > switch to Ant (downloadable from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/), > as it is a pain to have to update both Makefile and build.xml when > modifications are made,

[freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-08-29 Thread Ian Clarke
I would like to encourage those still using the Makefile and "make" to switch to Ant (downloadable from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/), as it is a pain to have to update both Makefile and build.xml when modifications are made, and Ant is more powerful, and easier to use than make. Some advice

[freenet-dev] Depreciating Makefile

2002-08-29 Thread Ian Clarke
I would like to encourage those still using the Makefile and "make" to switch to Ant (downloadable from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/), as it is a pain to have to update both Makefile and build.xml when modifications are made, and Ant is more powerful, and easier to use than make. Some advic