On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgold...@sift.net> wrote: > The make function description in the documentation is not described > well. It seems to imply that there is a default operation for each > system that the system developer can specify somehow, without saying > how. I see that there's a FIXME suggesting that we need to document the > BUILD-OPERATION option for DEFSYSTEM. > > It would be nice to have an example that shows how MAKE is intended to > be used. Not a super-detailed example, just a quickie to show that this > is not a feature in search of a use.... > > Anyone used this? > The idea is that some systems (primary or particularly secondary systems) can have a default operation specified by :build-operation that isn't load-op.
Thus you can declare make targets for creating executables, printing documentation, etc. Admittedly, you could do the same with fake secondary systems that have an :in-order-to ((load-op (,build-operation ,real-target))). But I figured it would be nicer to have a more direct solution. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org [...] there is what I call the "roundtrip fallacy": it is a mistake to use, as journalists and some economists do, statistics without logic but the reverse does not hold: It is not a mistake to use logic without statistics. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness, 2004.
